AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 6800M
Navi 22
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800M 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800M
- Performs better (up to 24%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 24% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 55 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Includes 6 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 50% more shading units (3840 vs 2560)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 142 86 67 44 |
108 64 55 37 |
| The Witcher 3 | 129 108 76 40 |
120 95 68 35 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 212 143 104 54 |
173 125 89 44 |
| Far Cry 6 | 116 98 76 44 |
88 78 64 34 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 77 64 48 23 |
62 51 36 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 106 100 66 45 |
76 69 49 30 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 86 70 49 28 |
58 45 33 21 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 83 74 44 21 |
63 56 35 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 139 124 85 45 |
101 94 66 32 |
| 1080p High | 121 | 94 |
| 1080p Ultra | 96 | 75 |
| 1440p Ultra | 68 | 55 |
| 4K Ultra | 38 | 30 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 11509 | 8318 |
| Solar Bay | 44251 | 36291 |
| Port Royal | 5558 | 4708 |
| Fire Strike | 33457 | 20181 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 18898 | 16477 |
| Night Raid | 77742 | 72311 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 222.9 img/sec | 153.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 135.3 img/sec | 90 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.46 Gpixels/sec | 4.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.14 Gpixels/sec | 5.77 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.64 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.92 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 432.6 Gpixels/sec | 385.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13677.6 FPS | 12770 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 529 | 586 |
| DirectX 11 | 128 FPS | 109 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 65 FPS | 58 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5055 Ops/s | 5621 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6800M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | GeekBench | 95620 |
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | GeekBench | 95620 |
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) | 7861 | 6257 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 7803 | 16583 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 21982 | 12510 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 23070 | 29528 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 93148 | 51349 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2165 | 2685 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3022 | 3939 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8375 | 7206 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 31430 | 24343 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 178071 | 113151 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800M and GeForce RTX 3060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 1, 2021 | January 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 22 | GA106 (GN20-E3) |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop | - Radeon RX 6600M |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX or above | - Intel Core i5 12500H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (55th and 64th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2116 MHz | 816-1387 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2300 MHz | 1283-1703 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3840 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 120 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 30 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 120 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 30 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 147 GPixel/s | 62-82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 368 GTexel/s | 154-204 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 145 W | 60-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 335 mm² | 300 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17.2 billion | 13.25 billion |
| Transistor Density | 51.34 MTr/mm² | 44.17 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 12000-14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4 | 1.4a |
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