AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

4534 points

148% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

112 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

57 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

78 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

44 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

92420 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

71210 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

84300 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

82804 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1703 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

336 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

68.4 Gigapixels/s

77% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

171 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.94 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3840

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

111th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 470 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 470 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 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 470 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon RX 470.