GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking220not rated
Place by popularity82not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.67no data
Power efficiency15.90no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)19 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10244864
Core clock speed2610 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed2815 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)107 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate180.2253.1
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs64152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Cores1638

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2248 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/s608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2022 19 October 2022
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 107 Watt 225 Watt

RX 6500 XT has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 110.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
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