AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 200.88

$ 83.29 significantly less expensive

$ 284.17

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4321 points

5276 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

87 FPS

126 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

88 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

48 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

99 FPS

149 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

50 FPS

62 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

Identical

60 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

86 FPS

239 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

111 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

66 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

77 FPS

84 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

144 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

70 FPS

75 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8131 points

8766 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points

2317.27 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76157 points

96416 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61842 points

74845 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points

89510 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

86221 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz

40% 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

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

360 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W

28% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s

86% significantly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

279 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.93 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

42% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

3584

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

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

116th of 594

98th of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October

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

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 also 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.

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 Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the Radeon RX 6600.

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