NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1725MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +655%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +671%

13637

Radeon R9 270X

1768

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Curacao

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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