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Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is ahead of the Radeon RX 5600 XT on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 4% to 27%, including 11% in 3DMark Time Spy (8,747 vs 7,850).

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 5600 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 5600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb 612
vram type —GDDR6
tdp w —170
cuda cores —3584

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from PCTestBench, 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, TopCPU.net, CpuTronic and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 5600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: PCTestBench, 3DMark		 20,764 points21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike (Overall) (higher is better)
Source: PCTestBench		 18,498 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, 3DMark		 —5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark		 —2,170 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, CpuTronic		 1,664 points1,984 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —1,978 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark, Legit Reviews, PCTestBench		 7,850 points8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: PCTestBench		 7,057 points—
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better)
Source: Legit Reviews		 —9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy (Overall) (higher is better)
Source: PCTestBench		 7,475 points—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 —984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 13,394 points16,969 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 5600 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is ahead of the Radeon RX 5600 XT on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 4% to 27%, including 11% in 3DMark Time Spy (8,747 vs 7,850).

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