ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB
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ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.89 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.68 TFLOPS.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.79 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB GPU ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GA106-150-A1 GPU Chip Navi 24 XT
Ampere Architecture RDNA 2
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
2560 Shader 1024
48 Render Output Units 32
80 Texture Units 64
20 Raytracing Cores 16

Memory

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.250GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.250 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 18.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 144 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB has a turbo clock of 1.890 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 2.825 GHz.

1.552 GHz Base Clock 2.200 GHz
1.890 GHz Boost Clock 2.825 GHz
1.86 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.69 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

130 W TDP 107 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 2
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED ASUS Aura Sync

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB is 54 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 54 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

300 mm Length 250 mm
134 mm Height 147 mm
54 mm Width 54 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB was released in Q1/2022.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers.

-- Part-no TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING
Q1/2022 Release date Q1/2022
249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 6 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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