AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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 Ti

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 366.59

$ 58.38 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

6% slightly better overall score

6805 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS

167 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

80 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

118 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

63 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

11700 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

3000.82 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

120183 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

95490 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

112303 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

115945 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

200 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

133.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

253.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

4864

89% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

5% slightly more texture mapping units

152

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 594

71st of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2020 December

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 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT specs and performance

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

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.