GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile vs Radeon RX 6600S

Place in the ranking	169	224
Place by popularity	not in top-100	60
Power efficiency	28.11	28.43
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Navi 23	GN20-P0
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)	11 May 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores	1792	2048
Core clock speed	1700 MHz	1238 MHz
Boost clock speed	2000 MHz	1500 MHz
Number of transistors	11,060 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	224.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	7.168 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	112	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	28	no data

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).

Laptop size	medium sized	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12_2
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.1	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	80−85 +27%	63 −27%
1440p	55−60 +25%	44 −25%
4K	35−40 +20.7%	29 −20.7%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

60−65

−8.2%

66
+8.2%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	75−80 +38.2%	55−60 −38.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65 +5.2%	58 −5.2%
Battlefield 5	110−120 +40.2%	80−85 −40.2%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75 +41.2%	50−55 −41.2%
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65 +17.3%	52 −17.3%
Far Cry 5	75−80 +36.8%	55−60 −36.8%
Far Cry New Dawn	85−90 +36.9%	65−70 −36.9%
Forza Horizon 4	180−190 +24.8%	140−150 −24.8%
Hitman 3	75−80 +31.6%	57 −31.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	150−160 +31.3%	110−120 −31.3%
Metro Exodus	110−120 −8.6%	126 +8.6%
Red Dead Redemption 2	85−90 −2.4%	87 +2.4%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130 +51.2%	80−85 −51.2%
Watch Dogs: Legion	120−130 −51.2%	186 +51.2%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	75−80 +38.2%	55−60 −38.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65 +90.6%	32 −90.6%
Battlefield 5	110−120 +40.2%	80−85 −40.2%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75 +41.2%	50−55 −41.2%
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65 +48.8%	41 −48.8%
Far Cry 5	75−80 +36.8%	55−60 −36.8%
Far Cry New Dawn	85−90 +36.9%	65−70 −36.9%
Forza Horizon 4	180−190 +24.8%	140−150 −24.8%
Hitman 3	75−80 +36.4%	55 −36.4%
Horizon Zero Dawn	150−160 +31.3%	110−120 −31.3%
Metro Exodus	110−120 +22.1%	95 −22.1%
Red Dead Redemption 2	85−90 +34.9%	63 −34.9%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130 +35.1%	94 −35.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	70−75 +37%	50−55 −37%
Watch Dogs: Legion	120−130 −46.3%	180 +46.3%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	75−80 +38.2%	55−60 −38.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65 +154%	24 −154%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75 +41.2%	50−55 −41.2%
Cyberpunk 2077	60−65 +79.4%	34 −79.4%
Far Cry 5	75−80 +36.8%	55−60 −36.8%
Forza Horizon 4	180−190 +24.8%	140−150 −24.8%
Hitman 3	75−80 +47.1%	51 −47.1%
Horizon Zero Dawn	150−160 +104%	74 −104%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130 +56.8%	81 −56.8%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	70−75 +60.9%	46 −60.9%
Watch Dogs: Legion	120−130 +373%	26 −373%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

85−90
+18.1%

−18.1%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70 +44.7%	45−50 −44.7%
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55 +42.1%	35−40 −42.1%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40 +46.2%	24−27 −46.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40 +72.7%	22 −72.7%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	40−45 +46.4%	27−30 −46.4%
Cyberpunk 2077	27−30 +50%	18 −50%
Far Cry 5	40−45 +41.4%	27−30 −41.4%
Forza Horizon 4	200−210 +41.3%	140−150 −41.3%
Hitman 3	45−50 +21.6%	37 −21.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	75−80 +28.8%	59 −28.8%
Metro Exodus	65−70 +28.8%	52 −28.8%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	80−85 +50%	56 −50%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50 +58.1%	30−35 −58.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion	180−190 +8.4%	166 −8.4%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

60−65
+15.1%

−15.1%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	35−40 +40%	24−27 −40%
Far Cry New Dawn	27−30 +52.6%	18−20 −52.6%
Hitman 3	27−30 +93.3%	15 −93.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	170−180 +32.8%	120−130 −32.8%
Metro Exodus	40−45 +18.9%	37 −18.9%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	40−45 +41.4%	29 −41.4%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24 +53.3%	14−16 −53.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24 +61.5%	12−14 −61.5%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	21−24 +57.1%	14−16 −57.1%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12 +83.3%	6 −83.3%
Far Cry 5	20−22 +42.9%	14−16 −42.9%
Forza Horizon 4	45−50 +44.1%	30−35 −44.1%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50 +38.2%	34 −38.2%
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18 +54.5%	10−12 −54.5%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

30−35
+24%

−24%

This is how RX 6600S and RTX 3050 4GB Mobile compete in popular games:

RX 6600S is 27% faster in 1080p
RX 6600S is 25% faster in 1440p
RX 6600S is 21% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RX 6600S is 373% faster.
in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RTX 3050 4GB Mobile is 51% faster.

All in all, in popular games: