GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G
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GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (RDNA 2) and has 4 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 144 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (Ampere) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G has the Navi 24 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 2 architecture.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G is based on the graphics chip GA106-150-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G GPU GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Navi 24 XT GPU Chip GA106-150-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ampere
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
1024 Shader 2560
32 Render Output Units 48
64 Texture Units 80
16 Raytracing Cores 20

Memory

The graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G clocks at 2.250 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 18.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

2.200 GHz Base Clock 1.552 GHz
2.825 GHz Boost Clock 1.822 GHz
2.69 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G is powered by 1 x 6-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 107 W.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 130 W.

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

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 2 screens can be operated with the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 4 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

282 mm Length 282 mm
114 mm Height 117 mm
40 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 4 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G has been manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers since Q1/2022.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8G came on the market in Q1/2022 and will have a structure width of 8 nanometers manufactured.

GV-R65XTGAMING OC-4GD Part-no GV-N3050GAMING OC-8GD
Q1/2022 Release date Q1/2022
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
6 nm Structure size 8 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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