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AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Radeon RX 6600
VS
GeForce RTX 3050
AMD Radeon RX 6600
Navi 23
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 with 1792 shaders against the 4 months newer GeForce RTX 3050 that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (1)

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
42.2
(Average)
Value Index
47.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over RX 6600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 57% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 42 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 43% more shading units (2560 vs 1792)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6600
vs
RTX 3050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
144
78
66
43
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
124
104
71
39
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
197
140
97
50
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
110
95
70
41
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
74
65
46
24
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
100
96
64
40
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
84
65
49
27
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
79
67
43
21
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
117
84
40
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 75
1080p Ultra 92 59
1440p Ultra 66 42
4K Ultra 36 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6600 +61%
10212
RTX 3050
6348
Time Spy 10397 6235
Solar Bay 45002 30191
Port Royal 5819 3546
Fire Strike 26481 15967
Wild Life Extreme 19820 12795
Night Raid 98330 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6600
58048
RTX 3050 +15%
67028
Background Blur 104.1 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 79.7 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.05 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.59 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.64 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 257.8 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7635.3 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6600 +1%
4786
RTX 3050
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600 +21%
15044
RTX 3050
12471
G2D Mark 895 916
DirectX 11 153 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 6443 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 15721 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600
966.59
RTX 3050 +51%
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1115 & 1092 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6600
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GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6600 +7%
12643
RTX 3050
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600
15089
RTX 3050 +42%
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600 +21%
9547
RTX 3050
7905
Image Classification (SP) 5441 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 6810 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15043 9816
Face Detection (HP) 19066 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 58821 41362
Text Classification (SP) 1943 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 2928 3721
Object Detection (SP) 4309 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 23470 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 132475 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 13, 2021 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $249
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 23 GA106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 -
Successor - Radeon RX 7600 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (68th and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1626 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 2491 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 1792 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores 28 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 159 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 279 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600
8.9 TFLOPS
RTX 3050 +2%
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 132 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 7 nm 8 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6600
224 GB/s
RTX 3050
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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Robin May 18, 2025 at 04:03 AM
RX card anytime anywhere more FPS more performance and low price currently is very cheap under 22k India
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