Radeon RX 7700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 6 shared benchmarks on file, by 20% to 100%, including 100% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,484 vs 8,747). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7700 generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TYO Lab blog), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 7700 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 7700

Full Radeon RX 7700 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 7700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	—	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, Hyper Cyber, Wccftech, Overclocking.com, Geekbench Browser, PassMark and Tom's Hardware; 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 7700	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, Hyper Cyber, 3DMark, Wccftech	9,166 points	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark	3,180 points	2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	3,320 points	1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark	17,484 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: Overclocking.com	8,133 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	1,179 pts	984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	20,769 pts	16,969 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better) Source: Tom's Hardware	399 rank	12 rank

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 7700

qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
qwen3:8b: 43.0 tok/s (TechReviewer)
qwen3:30b: 33.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)

All Radeon RX 7700 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 7700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 6 shared benchmarks on file, by 20% to 100%, including 100% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,484 vs 8,747).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7700 generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TYO Lab blog), best community run on file for each.