NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 284.17
$ 255.82 significantly less expensive
$ 539.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
18321 points
247% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
374 FPS
247 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
261 FPS
201 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
344 FPS
256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
151 FPS
104 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
82% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4804 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
2797.04 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
168118 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
186034 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2245 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
576 GB/s
60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
52% significantly lower TDP
260 W

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
46 TFLOPS
261% significantly better floating point performance

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
12th 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
2023 July

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 7900 GRE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 GRE at 260 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 7900 GRE over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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