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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon RX 9070 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 3060
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
49.1
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 60 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (182K vs 91K)
  • Has 79% higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 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 resolutions
GPU
RX 9070 XT
vs
RTX 3060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
112
68
60
39
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
122
100
74
39
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
181
137
99
48
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
95
85
67
37
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
65
57
40
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
80
74
53
31
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
62
50
37
20
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
68
64
38
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
109
98
70
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 99
1080p Ultra 194 81
1440p Ultra 152 60
4K Ultra 88 32
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 9070 XT +192%
26251
RTX 3060
9001
Time Spy 29556 8754
Solar Bay 122220 41158
Port Royal 18363 5145
Fire Strike 66319 22304
Wild Life Extreme 54672 17728
Night Raid 194947 97159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 XT +100%
182816
RTX 3060
91603
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 149.6 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 91 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 372.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 FPS 12226.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9070 XT +530%
50113
RTX 3060
7952

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT +61%
26913
RTX 3060
16710
G2D Mark 1310 965
DirectX 11 295 FPS 127 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 68 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 8231 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 46248 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT +44%
3287.07
RTX 3060
2288.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 6537 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
Add View all (4)
GeForce RTX 3060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-07 (tach)Cinebench 20247952
Add View all (1)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 9070 XT +159%
39190
RTX 3060
15123
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +115%
55727
RTX 3060
25942
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +224%
33599
RTX 3060
10356
Image Classification (SP) 18001 6645
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 15338
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 14283
Face Detection (HP) 74776 28862
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 61313
Text Classification (SP) 5163 2463
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 3793
Object Detection (SP) 19602 7712
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 25461
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 123233
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 3060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $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 Ti - 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 (12th and 58th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 4096 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 28
Tensor Cores 128 112
Ray-tracing Cores 64 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 380 GPixel/s 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +283%
48.7 TFLOPS
RTX 3060
12.7 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 304 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
RX 9070 XT +79%
644.6 GB/s
RTX 3060
360 GB/s

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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Choose between two graphics cards
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Total votes: 19

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