NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +243%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +221%

13637

Radeon R9 390X

4245

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 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

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

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

67.20 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Grenada

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

Board Design

220W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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