AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800S and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6800S

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 268.8 GTexel/s vs 171.0 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 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Texture fill rate	268.8 GTexel/s vs 171.0 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 100 Watt

Pipelines	3840 vs 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800S
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6800S	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	701
PassMark - G3D Mark	15460
Geekbench - OpenCL	72406
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8717
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8917

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6800S	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 23	GA106
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating	113	115
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2100 MHz	1425 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	537.6 GFLOPS (1:16)	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	17.20 TFLOPS (2:1)	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.602 TFLOPS	10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	3840
Pixel fill rate	134.4 GPixel/s	68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	268.8 GTexel/s	171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		PCIe 4.0 x16
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	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready