NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 234.83 significantly less expensive
$ 519.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
9568 points
81% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
196 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
143 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
173 FPS
84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
83 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
16155 points
84% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
1896.07 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
130322 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
93163 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
130005 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
133046 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1815 MHz
37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2105 MHz
18% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
16 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly 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
47% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
202.1 Gigapixels/s
136% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
505.2 Gigatexels/s
153% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
16.17 TFLOPS
26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
3840
7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
240
114% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
96
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
41st of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

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 RX 6800 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 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 Radeon RX 6800 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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