AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 339.79

$ 85.18 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

8% slightly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

161 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

455% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

3124.65 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

101567 points

0.60% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

1925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

2075 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

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

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

381.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

85% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586

73rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2023 May

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 4060 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 in gaming.

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

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the GeForce RTX 4060.