NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1725MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +182%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +77%

13637

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7697

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +70%

53

Radeon RX 5600 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +48%

95

Radeon RX 5600 XT

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +45%

144

Radeon RX 5600 XT

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +72%

81

Radeon RX 5600 XT

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +53%

141

Radeon RX 5600 XT

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +50%

188

Radeon RX 5600 XT

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +38%

69

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +72%

105

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

159

Radeon RX 5600 XT +6%

170

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

5888

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 10

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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