AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060
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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700 XT with 3456 shaders against the 2 years and 8 months older GeForce RTX 3060 that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700 XT
- Performs significantly better (up to 66%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Shows 65% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 99 vs 60 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Achieves 45% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (132K vs 91K)
- Has 20% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 360 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 186 117 96 70 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 179 152 113 61 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 268 195 134 74 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 145 131 110 63 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 106 89 69 39 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 148 143 102 64 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 111 90 73 44 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 115 103 65 31 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 192 176 130 67 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 161 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 133 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 99 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 57 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 17109 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 65104 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 9114 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 42722 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 30428 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 147320 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 285.8 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 181.6 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.9 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 6.66 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.68 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.18 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 493 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 19410.5 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1157 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 232 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 83 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 12985 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7700 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 135040 |
GeForce RTX 3060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-07 (tach) | Cinebench 2024 | 7952 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 11284 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14150 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27972 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 35311 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 142235 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3836 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4471 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12084 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 49197 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 301429 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | September 6, 2023 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | $329 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 32 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (34th and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1435 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2544 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3456 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 216 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 54 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 244 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 550 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 245 W | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 346 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 80.92 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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