NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

994% significantly better overall score

482 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

11 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 3060 and the Radeon RX 560X? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

377% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1836 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23094 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

276% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20500 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

328% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20126 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1275 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

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

221% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

318% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

387% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

250% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

332nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2018 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 560X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560X in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 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 GeForce RTX 3060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

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. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560X has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 GeForce RTX 3060 over the Radeon RX 560X.