AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 3060
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AMD Radeon RX 9070
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the 4 years older GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB 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 9070
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (36.1 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 139 vs 60 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 79% higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 360 GB/s
- Achieves 64% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (149K vs 91K)
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 | 229 156 137 102 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 240 216 159 84 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 307 215 158 84 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 192 163 148 95 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 146 119 97 52 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 219 212 157 107 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 146 122 105 65 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 174 149 102 47 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 262 248 188 99 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 213 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 178 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 139 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 82 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 26693 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 106118 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 15939 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 60053 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 48323 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 177554 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 377.5 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 221.3 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.4 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.99 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 8.52 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.36 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 606 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 8521.2 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1262 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 280 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 73 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14799 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9070
No benchmark results yet
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) | 15375 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 37834 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 43910 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 67858 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 172939 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4469 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 8499 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15393 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66890 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 365633 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | $329 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 48 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5070 | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1330 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2520 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 224 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 56 | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 56 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 323 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 564 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 220 W | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 357 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 53.9 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 150.98 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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