Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 24
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2022
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1283 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
153.8
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2