NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 383.40 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

14445 points

111% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

292 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

213 FPS

133 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

260 FPS

143 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

124 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

177% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

2747.99 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

176249 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

177326 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1890 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2310 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

576 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

67% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

121% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

192% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

5120

5% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

320

110% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

60% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 200 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 Ti.