GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs Radeon RX 6850 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated178
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.34
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2022 (2 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

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 cores46082560
Core clock speedno data1515 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)325 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate648.0140.4
Floating-point processing power20.74 TFLOPS8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs12832
TMUs28880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed18 GB/s1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 325 Watt 130 Watt

RX 6850 XT has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3050 OEM, on the other hand, has 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6850 XT and GeForce RTX 3050 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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