AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 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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$ 424.97

$ 284.17

$ 140.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

37% slightly better overall score

5276 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

61 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

88 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

48 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8766 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

2317.27 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

96416 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

74845 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

89510 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

86221 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

1320 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

Identical

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

170 W

35% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

93% significantly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

199 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

12.74 TFLOPS

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% many 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

64th of 593

98th of 593

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

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 6700 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly 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 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 12 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 6700 XT at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060.