GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking17not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation27.15no data
Power efficiency14.94no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 May 2022 (2 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,099 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores51203584
Core clock speed1925 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2324 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)335 Watt195 Watt
Texture fill rate743.7199.0
Floating-point processing power23.8 TFLOPSno data
ROPs12848
TMUs320112
Ray Tracing Cores80no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm242 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth576.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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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


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 335 Watt 195 Watt

RX 6950 XT has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3060 GDDR6X, on the other hand, has 71.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6950 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
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