NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4 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

5276 points
82% significantly better overall score
2893 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
68 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
69% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5163 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
69% significantly higher boost clock speed
1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
200% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
4096 Bit
2033% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
512 GB/s
42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
61% significantly lower TDP
275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
26% slightly higher pixel rate
67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
268.8 Gigatexels/s
35% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
48% significantly better floating point performance
8.60 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
4096
14% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
256
128% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 599
161st of 599

Family

The product line

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Radeon R9 Fury 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
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 Fury X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 Fury X in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury X at 275 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the Radeon R9 Fury X.

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