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

Verdict: The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 39% to 101%, including 101% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,484 vs 8,718). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7700 generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 59.5 for the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TyoLab), best community run on file for each.

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

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM$329 MSRP

Full 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	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	—	12

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, Hyper Cyber, WCCFTech, Overclocking.com, TopCPU.net, UL Solutions, 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	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: Hyper Cyber, 3DMark, WCCFTech	9,166 points	5,168 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark, TopCPU.net	3,180 points	2,294 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: UL Solutions	3,320 points	1,974 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark, TopCPU.net	17,484 points	8,718 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	—
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	20,769 pts	—
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better) Source: Tom's Hardware	399 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 →

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 GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 7700 or the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB?

The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 39% to 101%, including 101% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,484 vs 8,718).

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 GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (per TyoLab), best community run on file for each.