NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 283.79

$ 0.38 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

5776 points

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

87 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

103 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

50 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

336% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2007 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

1351.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

92543 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

107859 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1941 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2450 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

20% slightly more memory

10 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

2% slightly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

83% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

77% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

11.29 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

144

28% slightly more texture mapping units

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

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 June

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 6700 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 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 slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 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 6700 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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