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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon RX 7800 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 3060
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 2 years and 8 months 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 (1)

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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
49.1
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 92% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 60 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 73% higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 360 GB/s
  • Achieves 62% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (148K 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 resolutions
GPU
RX 7800 XT
vs
RTX 3060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
112
68
60
39
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
122
100
74
39
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
181
137
99
48
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
95
85
67
37
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
65
57
40
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
80
74
53
31
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
62
50
37
20
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
68
64
38
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
109
98
70
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 99
1080p Ultra 150 81
1440p Ultra 115 60
4K Ultra 67 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 7800 XT +101%
18111
RTX 3060
9001
Time Spy 20095 8754
Solar Bay 80667 41158
Port Royal 10917 5145
Fire Strike 50073 22304
Wild Life Extreme 37173 17728
Night Raid 160762 97159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7800 XT +62%
148335
RTX 3060
91603
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 149.6 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 91 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 372.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 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 7800 XT +35%
10740
RTX 3060
7952

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7800 XT +46%
24471
RTX 3060
16710
G2D Mark 1195 965
DirectX 11 250 FPS 127 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 68 FPS
GPU Compute 13617 Ops/s 8231 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11293 & 46248 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7800 XT +6%
2422.93
RTX 3060
2288.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 865 & 6537 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL156177
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light19225
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL152506
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light18724
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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 7800 XT +106%
31216
RTX 3060
15123
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7800 XT +44%
37266
RTX 3060
25942
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7800 XT +137%
24564
RTX 3060
10356
Image Classification (SP) 13913 6645
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 15338
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 14283
Face Detection (HP) 51780 28862
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 61313
Text Classification (SP) 3655 2463
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 3793
Object Detection (SP) 15073 7712
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 25461
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 123233
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 3060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $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 4070 - Radeon RX 6700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i5 12600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 58th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 3840 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 28
Tensor Cores - 112
Ray-tracing Cores 60 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 233 GPixel/s 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +194%
37.3 TFLOPS
RTX 3060
12.7 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 263 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 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz 1875 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 15000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7800 XT +73%
624.1 GB/s
RTX 3060
360 GB/s

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

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
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2 (18.2%)
Total votes: 11

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Lucas B December 1, 2025 at 05:04 AM
my friends have these and my friend with the 3060 said to say his is better
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