NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 269.99

$ 14.18 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

10978 points

108% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

226 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

162 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

205 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

90 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3719 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

1584.42 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

90142 points

0.71% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

115648 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

3130 MHz

76% significantly 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

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

200.3 Gigapixels/s

134% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

25.6 TFLOPS

100% 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

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 597

36th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 9060 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9060 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9060 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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