AMD Radeon RX 6700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX 6700

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 352.8 GTexel/s vs 316.8 GTexel/s
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 200 Watt
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 10 GB vs 8 GB

Texture fill rate	352.8 GTexel/s vs 316.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	10 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1941 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 2640 MHz vs 2450 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1085 vs 1060
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19762 vs 19229
Around 14% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2299 vs 2019
Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 101679 vs 92400

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 9 Jun 2021
Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1941 MHz
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz vs 2450 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1085 vs 1060
PassMark - G3D Mark	19762 vs 19229
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2299 vs 2019
Geekbench - OpenCL	101679 vs 92400

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1060

1085

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

19229

19762

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2019

2299

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

92400

101679

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
PassMark - G2D Mark	1060	1085
PassMark - G3D Mark	19229	19762
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2019	2299
Geekbench - OpenCL	92400	101679
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		311.253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		33.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		169.697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1500.926
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		6622.553

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 22	AD106
Launch date	9 Jun 2021	2023
Place in performance rating	71	73
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2450 MHz	2640 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1941 MHz	2505 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	705.6 GFLOPS (1:16)	316.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	22.58 TFLOPS (2:1)	20.28 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.29 TFLOPS	20.28 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	3840
Pixel fill rate	156.8 GPixel/s	126.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	352.8 GTexel/s	316.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	17200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Height	40 mm, 1.6 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Width	110 mm, 4.3 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	10 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	320.0 GB/s	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	160 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6