NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD 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

NVIDIA 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%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

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

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