NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 395.82 significantly less expensive

$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

19220 points

264% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

393 FPS

267 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

273 FPS

213 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

362 FPS

273 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

158 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

149 FPS

190 FPS

41 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

62 FPS

134 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

239 FPS

49 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

190 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

66 FPS

244 FPS

178 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS

189 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

3540.90 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

187759 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

213258 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1800 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2400 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

20 GiB

66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

800 GB/s

122% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

85% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

439% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

307% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

324% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

12288

242% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

768

585% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 December

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 7900 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly 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 7900 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 7900 XT at 315 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 7900 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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