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

Verdict: The NVIDIA 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 (8,747 vs 7,850). On llama2:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 80.6 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan performance scoreboard)) against 70.7 for the Radeon RX 5700 (per llama.cpp GitHub Vulkan benchmark discussion #10879), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 5700 and the NVIDIA 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA 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	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	8	12
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 3DMark, Modders Inc, Legit Reviews, Wccftech, 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	NVIDIA 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: Legit Reviews, 3DMark, Wccftech	—	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	1,851 points	1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, PCBench	7,850 points	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews	—	9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	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

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

All Radeon RX 5700 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

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

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

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

The NVIDIA 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 (8,747 vs 7,850).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama2:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB generates 80.6 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Vulkan performance scoreboard)) against 70.7 for the Radeon RX 5700 (per llama.cpp GitHub Vulkan benchmark discussion #10879), best community run on file for each.