NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, 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
$ 269.99
$ 14.18 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
10996 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
225 FPS
98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
163 FPS
102 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
205 FPS
117 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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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3719 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
1584.42 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
90142 points
0.71% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
35th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 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 9060 XT specs and performance

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

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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