Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. Release years: 2021, 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

AMD · RDNA 4

Radeon RX 9070 XT

16 GB VRAM304W TDP2025

Full Radeon RX 9070 XT benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16G Graphics Card…

Amazon$799

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Radeon RX 9070 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb	16	12
vram type	GDDR6	GDDR6
tdp w	304	170
cuda cores	—	3584

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Radeon RX 9070 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike	66,762 pts	21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme	33,887 pts	—
3DMark Port Royal	18,240 points	5,264 points
3DMark Speed Way	6,267 points	2,159 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	7,025 points	1,984 points
3DMark Time Spy	29,716 points	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	14,367 points	—
PassMark G2D Mark	1,318 pts	984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	26,908 pts	16,969 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy	719 rank	12 rank

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.