Radeon RX 9060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 9060 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 on all 8 shared benchmarks on file, by 11% to 200%, including 147% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (7,384 vs 2,991). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 9060 generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 26.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (per llmrun.dev), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 9060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

AMD · RDNA 4

Radeon RX 9060

Full Radeon RX 9060 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

8 GB VRAM130W TDP$249 MSRP2022

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 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 9060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
vram gb	—	8
vram type	—	GDDR6
tdp w	—	130
cuda cores	—	2560

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Club386, Notebookcheck, LANOC, Overclocking.com, GPU-Monkey, StorageReview, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark, Technetbook, Guru3D, TopCPU.net and Trusted Reviews; 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 9060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: Club386, Notebookcheck, LANOC, Overclocking.com	38,923 points	14,754 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better) Source: LANOC	18,501 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (Graphics score) (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey	—	7,355 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) Source: LANOC	9,436 points	—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey, StorageReview, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark	9,739 points	3,569 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck, Overclocking.com, LANOC, StorageReview	2,942 points	980 points
3DMark Speed Way (Graphics score) (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey	—	1,429 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, Technetbook, Overclocking.com, StorageReview, LANOC	3,777 points	1,337 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, Notebookcheck, LANOC, Guru3D, TopCPU.net, Overclocking.com	15,972 points	6,657 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics score) (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey	—	6,077 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: LANOC, Trusted Reviews	7,384 points	2,991 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics score) (higher is better) Source: GPU-Monkey	—	2,787 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 9060

qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
qwen3:30b: 100.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
phi (Procyon AI Text Gen): 94.5 tok/s (StorageReview)

All Radeon RX 9060 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

llama3.2:1b: 98.0 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)
qwen3:0.6b: 47.1 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
llama3.1:8b: 37.8 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 9060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050?

The Radeon RX 9060 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 on all 8 shared benchmarks on file, by 11% to 200%, including 147% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme (7,384 vs 2,991).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 9060 generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 26.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (per llmrun.dev), best community run on file for each.