NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and AMD Radeon RX 6700S 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 224.0 GTexel/s
2.7x more pipelines: 4864 vs 1792
Around 58% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 12269 vs 7755

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Oct 2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s vs 224.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines	4864 vs 1792
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	12269 vs 7755

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6700S

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1665 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6700S

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

12269

7755

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	AMD Radeon RX 6700S
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	12269	7755
PassMark - G2D Mark		734
PassMark - G3D Mark		14978
Geekbench - OpenCL		63705

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	AMD Radeon RX 6700S
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	RDNA 2.0
Code name	GA104	Navi 23
Launch date	19 Oct 2022	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	128	125
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	2000 MHz
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)	448.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)	14.34 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS	7.168 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4864	1792
Pixel fill rate	133.2 GPixel/s	128.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s	224.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	11060 million
Compute units		28
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	608.3 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR6