AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2581MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +3%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

28

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

40

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

GA104

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

195W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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