NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 660.83 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

6138 points

16% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

100 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

106 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

56 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

9129 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

183% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

77122 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

92086 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

91729 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1400 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

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

4096 Bit

2033% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

1024 GB/s

184% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

76% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

117% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

3840

7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

240

114% significantly 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 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon VII comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon VII has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon VII 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 VII at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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