Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 for Gaming

FPS Winner

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is the comparison's loser – it's a slower gaming GPU than the GeForce RTX 3050 and it's also a worse value for money, as it's £13.00 more expensive!

Advantages of the Radeon RX 6500 XT

Consumes up to 18% less energy – 107 vs 130 Watts

Advantages of the GeForce RTX 3050

A much faster GPU for gaming
Up to 7% cheaper – £165.99 vs £178.99
A better value for money for gaming
Up to 100% more VRAM memory – 8 vs 4 GB

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 for Gaming

The GPU's performance in selected game and settings

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Jan 19th, 2022

Average FPS

89%

Min 1% FPS

86%

Price, £

£178.99

92%

Value, £/FPS

£2.41/FPS

83%

Asrock Radeon RX 6500 XT Phantom Gaming 4GB OC GDDR6 Graphics Card, RDNA2, AMD FidelityFX, 1024 Streams, 2820MHz Boost

ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition 4GB GDDR6 Gaming Graphics Card (AMD RDNA 2, PCIe 4.0, 4GB GDDR6

GeForce RTX 3050

Jan 4th, 2022

Average FPS

100%

Min 1% FPS

100%

Price, £

£165.99

100%

Value, £/FPS

£1.99/FPS

100%

Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 WINDFORCE OC Graphics Card - 6GB GDDR6, 96-bit, PCI-E 4.0, 1470MHz Core Clock, 2x DP 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1, NVIDIA Ampere - GV-N3050WF2OC-6GD

ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 6G DUAL OC Gaming Graphics Card - 1537MHz Boost Clock, GDDR6, PCIe Gen 4, DLSS 2, 3 x DP v1.4a, 1 x HDMI 2.1 (Supports 4K)

MSI GeForce RTX 3050 LP 6G OC Gaming Graphics Card - 6GB GDDR6, 1492 MHz, PCI Express Gen 4, 96-bit, 1x DP (v1.4a), 2x HDMI 2.1 (Supports 4K)

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 OC (6GB GDDR6/PCI Express 4.0/MHz/MHz)

ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 OC (6GB GDDR6/PCI Express 4.0/1500MHz/14000MHz/Low Profile)

Buy on Amazon

£174.61

In Stock

Same as Founder's Edition

Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 EAGLE Graphics Card - 8GB GDDR6, 128-bit, PCI-E 4.0, 1777MHz Core Clock, 1x DP 1.4, 1 x HDMI 2.1, NVIDIA Ampere - GV-N3050EAGLE-8GD

ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK OC Edition 6GB GDDR6 Gaming Graphics Card (Nvidia RTX3050, PCIe 4.0, 1x DVI-D, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a, RTX3050-O6G-LP-BRK)

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 WINDFORCE V2 OC 6GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 in My Games

The FPS you'll get in saved games, click on a game to change it

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Jan 19th, 2022

GeForce RTX 3050

Jan 4th, 2022

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Synthetic Benchmarks

The Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 in synthetic GPU benchmarks

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Jan 19th, 2022

3DMark TimeSpy Graphics Score

4953

80%

GeForce RTX 3050

Jan 4th, 2022

3DMark TimeSpy Graphics Score

6225

100%

Performance Specifications

The Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 in core GPU performance specifications

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Jan 19th, 2022

Memory

4 GB

50%

Memory Bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

64%

Pixel Fillrate

90.08 GPixel/s

100%

Texture Fillrate

180.2 GTexel/s

100%

FP32

5.765 TFLOPS

63%

GeForce RTX 3050

Jan 4th, 2022

Memory

8 GB

100%

Memory Bandwidth

224 GB/s

100%

Pixel Fillrate

56.86 GPixel/s

63%

Texture Fillrate

142.2 GTexel/s

79%

FP32

9.098 TFLOPS

100%

Specifications

Comparison of all specifications

Radeon RX 6500 XT	Specifications Comparison of all specifications	GeForce RTX 3050
General
Jan 19th, 2022	Release Date	Jan 4th, 2022
$199.00	MSRP	$249.00
Navi II	Generation	GeForce 30
Desktop	Segment	Desktop
107 W	Power Consumption	130 W
Memory
4 GB	Memory Size	8 GB
GDDR6	Memory Type	GDDR6
64-bit	Memory Bus	128-bit
143.9 GB/s	Bandwidth	224 GB/s
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s	Pixel Fillrate	56.86 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s	Texture Fillrate	142.2 GTexel/s
5.765 TFLOPS	FP32	9.098 TFLOPS