NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 13621
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 13621
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7929 vs 3358
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7929 vs 3358
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3719
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3719
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 21 Jan 2020
Pipelines 3840 vs 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 vs 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 vs 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 3719

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1130 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1425 MHz
  • Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 224.6 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
Core clock speed 1130 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s vs 171.0 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
13621
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
3719
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 3719
PassMark - G3D Mark 13490
PassMark - G2D Mark 871
Geekbench - OpenCL 64726
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3560.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.486
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 148.938
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1111.648
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1669

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 1.0
Code name GA106 Navi 10 XLE
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 21 Jan 2020
Place in performance rating 117 210
Type Laptop Desktop, Laptop
Launch price (MSRP) $279

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1425 MHz 1560 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 1130 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64) 449.3 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1) 14.38 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS 7.188 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2304
Pixel fill rate 68.40 GPixel/s 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s 224.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 10300 million
Compute units 36

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready