AMD Radeon 860M vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 860M, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 860M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
110
67
60
39
The Witcher 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
124
101
75
37
Counter-Strike 2
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
184
131
96
47
Far Cry 6
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
93
85
64
38
Hogwarts Legacy
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
68
56
40
20
COD Modern Warfare 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
83
73
50
34
Ghost of Tsushima
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
65
48
37
21
Cyberpunk 2077
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
69
61
36
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
107
98
68
37
Avg FPS
1080p Highn/a100
1080p Ultran/a80
1440p Ultran/a58
4K Ultran/a32
Deviationn/aLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 860M
2572
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
8995
Time Spyn/a8748
Solar Bayn/a40964
Port Royaln/a5142
Fire Striken/a22308
Night Raidn/a98831
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 860M
25630
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
91603
Background Blur57.2 frames/s149.6 frames/s
Face Detection30.5 frames/s91 frames/s
Horizon Detection0.83 Gpix/sec4.07 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection1.16 Gpix/sec5.58 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur0.93 Gpix/sec3.92 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.35 Gpix/sec1.01 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching97.8 Gpix/sec372.9 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics3933.5 fps12226.3 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
16866
G2D Markn/a961
DirectX 11n/a128 fps
DirectX 12n/a69 fps
GPU Computen/a8428 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
109.4 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)n/a555.5 fps
Car Chasen/a492.3 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)n/a407.9 fps
T-Rexn/a1940.6 fps
ALU 2n/a2862.2 fps
Driver Overhead 2n/a295.2 fps
APIn/aOpenGL
OSn/aWindows
Tessellationn/a2965.4

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Announced January, 7, 2025 January, 12, 2021
Form Factor Laptop use PC use
Use case Universal Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Ampere
Codename Krackan Point GA106
Price n/a 329

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 1320 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 3000 MHz 1777 MHz
Shader Units 512 3584
TMUs 32 112
ROPs 16 48
Execution Units 8 28
Ray Tracing Cores 8 28
Tensor Cores n/a 112
L1 cache n/a 128 KB/core
L2 cache n/a 3000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 Gpix/sec 85 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTex/s 199 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.1 TFLOPS 12.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 15-54 W 170 W
Process TSMC Samsung
Process tech. 4 nm 8 nm
Max temperature 100 °C n/a
Transistor Size n/a 276 mm²
Transistor count n/a 12 billion
Transistor density n/a 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface System Shared GDDR6
Memory Frequency n/a 1875 MHz
Bus n/a 192 bit
ECC support n/a No
Effective Memory Speed n/a 15000 MB/s
Memory Size n/a 12 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
360 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 8.6
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2

Results

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