Best budget graphics card of the latest generation: RTX 3050, RX 6500 XT or RX 6600?

We found out on the i2HARD YouTube channelExperts from the i2HARD channel on YouTube tested builds with RTX 3050, RX 6500 XT, RX 6600, etc. video cards in games and benchmarks. About the results – in the article. Discuss

The authors of the i2HARD YouTube channel tested the performance of the GTX 1650, RTX 3050, RX 6500XT, RX 6600, RTX 3060 video cards. They ran configurations in games and working programs.

Among the benchmarks were 3D Mark , Blender, AIDA64 GPGPU, Adobe Premiere. In the first (Firestrike), the RX 6600 performed well, scoring 23864 points compared to 15900 for the RTX 3050 and 15531 for the RX 6500XT. A similar situation in 3D Mark Time Spy: RX 6600 also pulls ahead compared to RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT. In Blender, the results were different, but the advantage was mostly with NVIDIA.

You can see all measurements below.

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Of the games, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal, Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Red Dead Redemption 2 were launched. In terms of average performance, the RX 6600 shows the best result when compared to the RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT. All performance measurements are below.

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Then the presenter moved on to testing PCle 3.0 and 4.0. In general, it turned out that in the 3D Mark benchmark, the performance increase is quite significant – twice, while in others it was only 1-2 percent (Blender – except for Victor). In Adobe Premiere, version 4.0 reduces render times by 27 percent (RX 6500XT) and 10 percent (RTX 3050).

In games, the difference in average performance was sometimes quite significant. For example, in Doom Eternal it was 5 percent with low settings and 11 percent with medium; in Forza Horizon 5 it's already 17 percent (low preset) and 44 percent (extreme settings).

All measurements are below.

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In terms of overclocking, the average performance and frame rate gain in the very rare RX 6500 XT events in Doom Eternal was 5 percent in this case. At the same time, the RTX 3050 managed to increase performance by 9 percent on average and by 10 percent in extremely rare events. Similar results were seen in Forza Horizon 5.

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According to the presenter, in general, video cards turned out to be rather controversial. However, for the most part, performance was better with the RX 6600.

Tested PC configurations:

• processor AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 4.7/4.6 GHz;
• video card INNO3D GeForce GTX 1650 Super Compact/Sapphire Radeon RX 6500XT PULSE/Palit GeForce RTX 3050 Dual/Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 PULSE/INNO3D GeForce RTX 3060 ICHILL X3 RED;
• motherboard ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme;
• DDR4 RAM G.SKILL Trident Z RGBF4-3600C16D-16GTZR 2×8 GB;
• cooling systemCustom CBO;
• case Streacom BC1 Open Benchtable;
• case Streacom BC1 Open Benchtable;
• operating system Windows 10.

Source: i2HARD