AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

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$ 699.99

$ 599.99

$ 100.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

55 %

7% slightly better overall score

51 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

123 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

60 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

86 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

Identical

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9625

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8714

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

673.89

2445.24

262% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091

96416

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806

74845

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

77302

89470

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

88142

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

84353

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

448 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

170 W

32% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

42% significantly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

53% significantly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3584

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

42% much more texture mapping units

112

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

38th of 549

41st of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon 5700 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019

January 2021

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5700 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060.