Radeon RX 5700 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB is ahead of the Radeon RX 5700 on all 2 shared benchmarks on file, by 7% to 11%, including 11% in 3DMark Time Spy (8,718 vs 7,850). On llama2:7b, the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 75.9 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussion #10879) against 70.7 for the Radeon RX 5700 (per knightli.com), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 5700 and the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

AMD

Radeon RX 5700

8 GB VRAM

Full Radeon RX 5700 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM$329 MSRP

Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

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

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Radeon RX 5700	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	8	12

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, Modders Inc, WCCFTech, TopCPU, UL Benchmarks, PCBench and Geekbench Browser; 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.

Benchmark	Radeon RX 5700	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (graphics score) (higher is better) Source: Modders Inc	5,340 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (overall) (higher is better) Source: Modders Inc	5,376 points	—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, WCCFTech	—	5,168 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, TopCPU	—	2,294 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: UL Benchmarks	1,851 points	1,974 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, PCBench, TopCPU	7,850 points	8,718 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TopCPU	3,956 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (graphics score) (higher is better) Source: Modders Inc	3,525 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (overall) (higher is better) Source: Modders Inc	3,588 points	—
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	—	82,071 points
Geekbench 6 Vulkan (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	—	91,383 points

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 5700

llama2:7b: 70.7 tok/s (knightli.com)
llama2:7b: 70.7 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Vulkan benchmark discussion #10879)
llama-2:7b: 67.5 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub)

All Radeon RX 5700 AI benchmarks →

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s (TYO Lab blog)
llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s (TyoLab)
llama3.2:1b: 185.0 tok/s (LocalScore (Mozilla Builders))

All GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 5700 or the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB is ahead of the Radeon RX 5700 on all 2 shared benchmarks on file, by 7% to 11%, including 11% in 3DMark Time Spy (8,718 vs 7,850).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama2:7b, the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 75.9 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussion #10879) against 70.7 for the Radeon RX 5700 (per knightli.com), best community run on file for each.