AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2250MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +62%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +162%

19428

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7406

Blender

Radeon RX 6800 XT +1%

2647

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2596

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +60%

72

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +57%

134

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +42%

188

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

132

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +106%

60

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +97%

69

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +85%

102

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +96%

104

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +82%

179

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +42%

199

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

140

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +35%

111

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +68%

138

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +15%

178

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

72

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

3584

288

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

72

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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