NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 is a mid-range desktop graphics card. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 128 Bit memory bus. It offers 2,560 cores and supports PCIe 4.0.

The performance is similar to the older GeForce RTX 2060 and therefore best suited for 1080p gaming of modern and demanding games in high settings.

The GA106 chip offers 3,840 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 1,920 INT32 ALUs). With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA106 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip). The TDP of the RTX 3050 is specified at 130 Watt and therefore better than the previous RTX 2060 (160 Watt).

AMD Radeon RX 6700M

The AMD Radeon RX 6700M is a mobile high-end graphics card for gaming laptops. It uses the Navi 22 chip based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. It uses 2,304 of the 2,560 shaders (= 36 CUs), 144? TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The 160 Bit memory system connects 10 GB GDDR6 with 2 GHz memory clock. Furthermore, the RX6800M includes 80 MB Infinity Cache. AMD specified 2.3 GHz game clock for 10.6 TFLOPS theoretical FP32 performance at a TDP of 135 Watt. This means the GPU is in theory 11% slower than the RX 6800M.

The gaming performance of the RX 6700M is positioned slightly below a RTX 3070. When Raytracing effects are activated, it falls behind the GeForce GPUs.

The Navi 22 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the modern 7nm process.