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RTX 3060VSRX 7900 XTX

NVIDIA · Ampere (RTX 30) · 2021 · mid

The card that surprised everyone with 12 GB VRAM in a mid-range chip.

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AMD · RDNA 3 (RX 7000) · 2022 · enthusiast

24 GB of VRAM in a raster-monster card. RT is its weakness.

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Specifications

RTX 3060RX 7900 XTX
VRAM 24 GB GDDR6
Memory bus 384-bit
TBP 355 W
PCIe Gen 4
Local AI (Q4 fit) 32B · ~107 tok/s @8B

Live benchmark data

RTX 3060 98FPS avg · 5 runs
RX 7900 XTX no runs yet

Not enough verified runs yet for a fair pool verdict — averages appear once each side has at least five.

Verdict — RTX 3060

Aged surprisingly well because of that VRAM. Cheap on the used market and still competent for 1080p. Local LLM/Stable Diffusion crowd loves it for the VRAM/price ratio.

Verdict — RX 7900 XTX

Aging well for pure rasterization but the RT gap kept it out of the mainstream conversation. Great on the used market for raster-focused workloads.

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