AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 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 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11265 points

148% significantly better overall score

4534 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

231 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

112 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

167 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

2352.59 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

157812 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

92420 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

100571 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

123% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

167% significantly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

80 W

274% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

321% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

278% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.74 TFLOPS

89% significantly better floating point performance

10.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

20% slightly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

139% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 586

111th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

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 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly 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 6800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 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 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 XT over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.