NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 313.40 significantly less expensive

$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

19220 points

182% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

393 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

273 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

362 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

158 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Alan Wake 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

46 FPS

111 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Alan Wake 2 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

74 FPS

134 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

126 FPS

190 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

244 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

189 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Starfield FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

78 FPS

191 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Starfield FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS

142 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

138 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

120 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

108% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

3540.90 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

187759 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

213258 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1800 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2400 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

20 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

800 GB/s

78% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

57% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

245% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

220% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

233% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

12288

152% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

768

405% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

139% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2022 December

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 7900 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 7900 XT at 315 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7900 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.