AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800S and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800S

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• 2.2x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 817 MHz
• Around 64% higher boost clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1282 MHz
• Around 75% higher texture fill rate: 268.8 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
• Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
• Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 724 vs 589
• Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15757 vs 13253

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

• Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
• Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 100 Watt
• Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 78982 vs 73115
• Around 8% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1821 vs 1689

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800S
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	724 589
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	15757 13253
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	73115 78982
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1689 1821

Compare specifications (specs)