NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6700

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

5776 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

116 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

87 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

103 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

50 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

1351.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

92543 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

107859 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1941 MHz

115% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2450 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

10 GiB

67% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

118% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

129% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

106% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

11.29 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

66% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.