Radeon RX 6700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 6700 leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks (28% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB takes 1 (5% in PassMark G2D Mark). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 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 · RDNA 2

Radeon RX 6700

10 GB VRAM

Full Radeon RX 6700 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 6700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	10	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, Legit Reviews, The FPS Review, Wccftech, AlkTech, Gizbot, Geekbench Browser 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.

Benchmark	Radeon RX 6700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews, The FPS Review, 3DMark, Wccftech	5,839 points	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	2,192 points
3DMark Speed Way (RX 6700 XT) (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	2,270 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	2,003 points	1,976 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 (Graphics Score) (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	2,002 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics Score (RX 6700 XT) (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	2,425 points	—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: AlkTech, The FPS Review, Gizbot, 3DMark	11,178 points	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews	—	9,755 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
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	940 pts	984 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 6700

qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
llama2:7b: 83.9 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussion #10879)
llama2:7b: 83.9 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussions (Vulkan performance))

All Radeon RX 6700 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 6700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The Radeon RX 6700 leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks (28% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB takes 1 (5% in PassMark G2D Mark).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6700 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.