AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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 6700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7232 points

58% significantly better overall score

4562 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

107 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

79 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

2352.59 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

92420 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

71210 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

157% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

5.97 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

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

80 W

187% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

141% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

141% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

10.94 TFLOPS

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

64th of 597

110th of 597

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

Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

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 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.