NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S 8 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 6700S

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

21% slightly better overall score

3718 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

93 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

61 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

77 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

34 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

156% significantly higher Blender score

916.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

72317 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

64266 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

74785 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1700 MHz

88% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2000 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

128 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

247.5 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

7.92 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

114% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

112

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

131st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 January

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 6700S comparison

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700S has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700S also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700S has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop and the Radeon RX 6700S have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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