PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT
vs
Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and has 4608 texture shaders and 72 execution units.

Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, which has 3584 shaders and 28 execution units.
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Navi 21 XT GPU Chip GA106-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ampere
72 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
4608 Shader 3584
128 Render Output Units 48
288 Texture Units 112
72 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC can access 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.900 GHz. The base frequency of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC is 1.320 GHz.

1.900 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
2.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.837 GHz
2.09 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.78 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC has a TDP of 180 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 180 W
345 W TDP (up) 210 W
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
1 x 90 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
36-38 dB Noise (Load) 36 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 320 mm long, 135 mm high and 62 mm wide.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC is 245 mm long, 119 mm high and -- wide.

320 mm Length 245 mm
135 mm Height 119 mm
62 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1610 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 799 $.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC was introduced in Q1/2021 at a price of 469 $.

AXRX 6800XT 16GBD6-3DHE/OC Part-no NE63060T19K9-190AU
Q1/2021 Release date Q1/2021
799 $ Launch Price 469 $
7 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
208 fps (avg)
Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC Gainward GeForce RTX 3060 Ghost OC
12 GB GDDR6
134 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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