NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1725MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +670%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 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

-

Compute Units

24

46

SM Count

-

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

32.96 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Trinidad

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

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

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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