GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X vs Radeon RX 6700S

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking117not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency33.31no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 23GA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17923584
Core clock speed1700 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2000 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors11,060 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt195 Watt
Texture fill rate224.0199.0
Floating-point processing power7.168 TFLOPSno data
ROPs6448
TMUs112112
Ray Tracing Cores28no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s304.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 195 Watt

RX 6700S has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 143.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6700S and GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6700S is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6700S
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