NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

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$ 599.99

$ 429.99

$ 170.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

71 %

39% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

122 FPS

143 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

107 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

125 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

61 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416

102988

6% slightly higher Geekbench (OpenCL) score

Geekbench (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845

6% slightly higher Geekbench (Vulkan) score

70085

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714

12922

48% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

2321 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2581 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

Identical

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

35% slightly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

93% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

160

42% much 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

39th of 531

21st of 531

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

March 2021

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 XT comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 12 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 XT at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060.