NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
20954 points
362% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
421 FPS
309 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
302 FPS
245 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
380 FPS
302 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
172 FPS
128 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
3144.45 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
160380 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
194640 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
2970 MHz
74% significantly 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
640 GB/s
90% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
455% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
345% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
128
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
8th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Radeon RX 9070 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 9070 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.

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