NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD Radeon VII 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 - 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1750 MHz
• 460.4x more texture fill rate: 199.0 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
• Around 76% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 300 Watt
• Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 16398
• Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 792
• Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 299.369 vs 206.353
• Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 28.778 vs 21.606
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 188.944 vs 69.256
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 1152.664 vs 499.927
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 22495 vs 11724
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 22495 vs 11724

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

• Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1320 MHz
• Around 7% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 3584
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
• Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
• Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91678 vs 88251
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 4659.199 vs 4021.382
• Around 17% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2304 vs 1961

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU 2: AMD Radeon VII

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	17107 16398
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	971 792
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	88251 91678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	299.369 206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4021.382 4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.778 21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	188.944 69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1152.664 499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22495 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3717 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22495 11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3717 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	1961 2304

Compare specifications (specs)