nvidia

Brand

12GB GDDR6

Memory

3584

Cores

360 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

$329 Jan 2021 View Details

amd

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2560

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

$399 Jul 2019 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12GB GDDR6 170W $329 Jan 2021

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

$329 • Jan 2021

Radeon RX 5700 XT

$399 • Jul 2019

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

8GB GDDR6 225W $399 Jul 2019

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Memory Size	12 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6
TDP	170 W	225 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1777 MHz	1905 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	360 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	8nm	7nm
Architecture	Ampere	RDNA 1.0
Shading Units	3584	2560
RT Cores	28	N/A
TMUs	112	160
ROPs	48	64
Memory Bus	192-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1875 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	85.3 GPixel/s	121.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	360 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	12.74 GFLOPS	9.754 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	3.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	276 mm²	251 mm²
Transistors	12000 Million	10300 Million
Required PSU	450 W	550 W
Power Connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

8993 (+5%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

8594

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

91603 (+12%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

81739

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

109.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

117.9 FPS (+8%)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

16870 (+3%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

16398

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Game Benchmarks Comparison (135 benchmarks)

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 104 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+16%)

AVG 141 FPS

MIN 128 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+18%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+21%)

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+4%)

AVG 261 FPS

MIN 175 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 250 FPS

MIN 174 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 107 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+5%)

AVG 178 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+9%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

8 2022 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+1%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+4%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+0%)

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+0%)

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem

8.6 2022 • Action, Adventure • Croteam, Timelock Studio

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+19%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+21%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT (+20%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+18%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+11%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+24%)

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

Winner

Loser

Chorus

8.9 2021 • Action, Adventure • Deep Silver Fishlabs

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 201 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+5%)

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 171 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 120 FPS

MIN 95 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+18%)

AVG 141 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 5700 XT

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (+6%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Winner

Loser

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