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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT
Intro
The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti features a core clock frequency of 1410 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 4864 SPUs, 152 Texture Address Units, and 80 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
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200 Watts |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT |
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335 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)
| Radeon RX 6950 XT |
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589824 MB/sec |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
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(Unknown) MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon RX 6950 XT is quite a bit (more or less 187%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)| Radeon RX 6950 XT |
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616000 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
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214320 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)| Radeon RX 6950 XT |
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246400 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
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112800 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | Radeon RX 6950 XT |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | December 2020 | May 2022 |
| Code Name | GA104 Ampere | Navi 21 |
| Memory | 8192 MB | 16384 MB |
| Core Speed | 1410 MHz | 1925 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1750 GB/s | 2250 GB/s |
| Power (Max TDP) | 200 watts | 335 watts |
| Bandwidth | (Unknown) MB/sec | 589824 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 214320 Mtexels/sec | 616000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 112800 Mpixels/sec | 246400 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 4864 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 152 | 320 |
| Render Output Units | 80 | 128 |
| Bus Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 17400 million | 26800 million |
| Bus | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 12 | DirectX 12 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.6 | OpenGL 4.6 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
GeForce RTX 3060 TiAmazon.com
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Radeon RX 6950 XTAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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