AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$749.99 May 2022 View Details

$749.99

nvidia

Brand

12GB GDDR6

Memory

3584

Cores

360 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

$289.99 Jan 2021 View Details

$289.99

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

$329 • Jan 2021

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12GB GDDR6 170W $289.99 Jan 2021

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
Memory Size	16 GB	12 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6
TDP	335 W	170 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	1777 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	360 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5120	3584
RT Cores	80	28
TMUs	320	112
ROPs	128	48
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1875 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	85.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	360 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	12.74 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	276 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	12000 Million
Required PSU	700 W	450 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

21011 (+134%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

8993

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

189857 (+107%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

91603

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.6 FPS (+179%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

109.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

28129 (+67%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

Game Benchmarks Comparison (597 benchmarks)

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Background

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+127%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+113%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+141%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+69%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+70%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+82%)

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+107%)

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+102%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+122%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+70%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+69%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+64%)

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 10 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+113%)

AVG 134 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+107%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+108%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+85%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+96%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+114%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+100%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+103%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+121%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+76%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+70%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+93%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Wins!

Based on 597 benchmarks across 169 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+100%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB