Radeon RX 7600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 7600 XT is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 2% to 19%, including 19% in 3DMark Steel Nomad (2,354 vs 1,976). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 7600 XT 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 7600 XT

16 GB VRAM

Full Radeon RX 7600 XT 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 7600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	16	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, PC Guide, Legit Reviews, Wccftech, TechPowerUp, Tom's Hardware 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 7600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) Source: PC Guide	7,465 points	—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews, PC Guide, 3DMark, Wccftech	5,920 points	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	2,354 points	1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	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: PC Guide	5,371 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better) Source: TechPowerUp	12,800 pts	—
Cinebench R23 multi (higher is better) Source: Tom's Hardware	42,500 pts	—
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 7600 XT

qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
llama2:7b: 53.7 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (ROCm perf discussion, @wbruna))
llama2:7b: 53.0 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub — Vulkan performance discussion)

All Radeon RX 7600 XT 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 7600 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The Radeon RX 7600 XT is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 2% to 19%, including 19% in 3DMark Steel Nomad (2,354 vs 1,976).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.