Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6900 XT Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2250MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 2 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+42%
23040
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16200
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+69%
20764
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+69%
10076
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+26%
3920
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+58%
79
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+57%
142
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+40%
194
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
138
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+50%
66
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
44
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+54%
77
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
50
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+50%
116
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
77
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+54%
114
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
74
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+52%
200
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
131
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+16%
201
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
173
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+92%
127
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
66
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+49%
152
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
102
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6900 XT
+21%
189
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
155
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 2022
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
80
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
5120
Shading Units
4864
320
TMUs
152
128
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
80
RT Cores
38
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
720.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
46.08 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
1440 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
225W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
GA104
Navi 21 XTX
(215-121000167)
(215-121000167)
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
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
-
CUDA
8.6
6.5
Shader Model
6.7
