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Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB leads on 4 of 6 shared benchmarks (16% in 3DMark Port Royal); the Radeon RX 6600 XT takes 2 (5% in 3DMark Time Spy). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TyoLab), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 6600 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. Both released in 2021. MSRP range: $379 · $329. 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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*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

SpecRadeon RX 6600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb 812
vram type GDDR6GDDR6
tdp w 160170
cuda cores —3584
rt cores 32—
process nm 7—

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, LanOC Reviews, HWCooling.net, OC Inside, Legit Reviews, Wccftech, Digital Trends, Trusted Reviews 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.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 6600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, LanOC Reviews		 28,481 points21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) (higher is better)
Source: HWCooling.net		 27,766 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside		 12,070 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside, Legit Reviews, 3DMark, Wccftech, LanOC Reviews		 4,378 points5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 1,793 points1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside, Digital Trends, 3DMark		 9,221 points8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics) (higher is better)
Source: HWCooling.net		 9,418 points—
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better)
Source: Legit Reviews		 —9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: Trusted Reviews		 4,371 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 6600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 6600 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB leads on 4 of 6 shared benchmarks (16% in 3DMark Port Royal); the Radeon RX 6600 XT takes 2 (5% in 3DMark Time Spy).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TyoLab), best community run on file for each.

What did the Radeon RX 6600 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB cost at launch?

The Radeon RX 6600 XT launched at a $379 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB at $329. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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