AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060
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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB with 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 6 months newer 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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Has 24% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 360 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.7 vs 9.8 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 28 dedicated RT cores
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 40% more shading units (3584 vs 2560)
- Features 112 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 131 73 57 35 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 113 94 66 36 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 185 128 91 47 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 102 86 64 36 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 67 56 39 18 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 90 85 55 35 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 75 58 39 21 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 69 62 33 15 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 121 107 72 35 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 106 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 83 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 57 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 31 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9421 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | - | 41158 |
| Port Royal | - | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 27551 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 18403 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 103057 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 148 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 89.5 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.52 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.98 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.11 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.75 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 295.8 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 10480.7 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 920 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 115 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 63 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7516 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 5700 XT
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) | 6764 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 7615 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19081 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 20621 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 73667 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1970 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2417 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6684 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 30456 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 147087 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | July 7, 2019 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | $329 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 1.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 10 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3060 | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 9600K or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (65th and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1605 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1905 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 28 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 122 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 305 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 225 W | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 251 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 10 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 39.84 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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