NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 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

$ 599.99
$ 531.19
$ 68.80 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %
116 %
127% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS
239 FPS
115 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS
171 FPS
111 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS
211 FPS
124 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
99 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714
19630
125% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24
25% slightly higher Blender score
1947.33
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416
157812
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845
100571
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89260
149836
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85064
156427
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
2015 MHz
52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2250 MHz
26% 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
76% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
288 Gigapixels/s
237% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
648 Gigatexels/s
225% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
62% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
4608
28% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
288
157% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
128
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 557
13th of 557

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021
November 2020

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 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 Radeon RX 6800 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 6800 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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