NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 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
$ 249.99
$ 34.18 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
8122 points
53% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
173 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
126 FPS
66 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
153 FPS
65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
67 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS
106 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS
181 FPS
Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

62 FPS
63 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
ELDEN RING FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS
Identical
60 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

239 FPS
143 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS
96 FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

66 FPS
82 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
God of War FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

84 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS
62 FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

144 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
125 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS
67 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
279% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2312 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
81% significantly higher Blender score
1276.95 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
82600 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
99664 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2655 MHz
49% significantly 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
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth
288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
165 W
3% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
169.9 Gigapixels/s
99% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
339.8 Gigatexels/s
70% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
21.75 TFLOPS
70% significantly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
128
14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
52nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 7600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7600 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 Radeon RX 7600 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 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 Radeon RX 7600 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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