AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2250MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +42%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6900 XT +70%

20932

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

12265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +58%

79

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +57%

142

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +40%

194

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

138

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +50%

66

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

44

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +54%

77

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +50%

116

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +54%

114

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +52%

200

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +16%

201

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

173

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +92%

127

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

66

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +49%

152

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

102

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +21%

189

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

155

Radeon RX 6900 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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

1410 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

5120

Shading Units

4864

320

TMUs

152

128

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

80

RT Cores

38

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

6.7

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