AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (2310MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +85%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +188%

21457

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT +20%

3023

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2499

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +91%

86

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +83%

156

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +62%

214

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

132

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +124%

65

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +117%

76

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +109%

115

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +130%

122

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +104%

200

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +42%

200

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

140

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

130

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

76

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +85%

152

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +22%

189

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

5120

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

80

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

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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