NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M 8 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

35% slightly better overall score

3903 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

92 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

77 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

36 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8165 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

156% significantly higher Blender score

902.13 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

63711 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

47653 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

70251 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

75065 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

2068 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2416 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 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

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

100 W

69% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

154.6 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

274.2 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

8.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

100% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

126th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 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 vs Radeon RX 6600M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the Radeon RX 6600M in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6600M has a significantly 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 6600M 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 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon RX 6600M.