GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+254%
20310
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
2816
184
TMUs
176
96
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.3