Radeon RX 7700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared
Verdict: The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 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 (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.
Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 7700 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
*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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Hyper Cyber, TopCPU.net, Overclocking.com, CpuTronic, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark |
— | 21,653 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Hyper Cyber, 3DMark |
9,166 points | 5,074 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark, Overclocking.com |
3,180 points | 2,170 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, CpuTronic |
3,320 points | 1,984 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: 3DMark |
— | 1,978 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 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 | — |
| 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)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
- llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)
- llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)
- llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)
Quick answers
Which is faster, the Radeon RX 7700 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060?
The Radeon RX 7700 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 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 (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.
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