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

Verdict: The Radeon RX 7700 XT is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 18% to 96%, including 96% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,177 vs 8,747). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 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.

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Where to buy

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Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 7700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb 1212
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 Overclocking.com, LanOC Reviews, Notebookcheck, 3DMark, Legit Reviews, Wccftech, Hyper Cyber, 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.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 7700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com		 31 fps—
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: LanOC Reviews, Notebookcheck, 3DMark		 42,170 points21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 21,006 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: Legit Reviews, 3DMark, Wccftech, Hyper Cyber		 9,166 points5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark		 3,180 points2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 3,320 points1,976 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, 3DMark, LanOC Reviews		 17,177 points8,747 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—
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 7700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

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Quick answers

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

The Radeon RX 7700 XT is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 18% to 96%, including 96% in 3DMark Time Spy (17,177 vs 8,747).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7700 XT 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.

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