NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 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 6950 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

14445 points

218% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

292 FPS

180 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

213 FPS

156 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

260 FPS

182 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

124 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2747.99 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

176249 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

177326 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1890 MHz

110% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2310 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

16 GiB

167% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

576 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

318% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

332% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

332% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

116% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

5120

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

320

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 May

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 6950 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.