AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

19% slightly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

112 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

2352.59 points

140% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

92420 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

71210 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

84300 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

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

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

80 W

181% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3840

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

120

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

93rd of 586

111th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT has a significantly 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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 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 5700 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.