NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

15475 points

241% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

326 FPS

214 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

216 FPS

159 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

295 FPS

217 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

127 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2429.25 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

142590 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

157875 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1800 MHz

100% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2430 MHz

42% 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

624 GB/s

85% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

228% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

240% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

240% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

229% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

8192

113% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

240

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

17th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 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 7800 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in our tests.

The Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 7800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT at 263 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7800 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.