NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 12 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

6815 points

6870 points

0.81% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

144 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

104 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

130 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

411% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2289 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

104773 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2321 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2581 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

165 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

13.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

89% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

160

5% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

69th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 Ti vs Radeon RX 6850M XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6850M XT beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6850M 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 6850M XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 Radeon RX 6850M XT has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6850M XT over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.