NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 335W)
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (2310MHz vs 1725MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
20.31 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+16%
23.65 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
13641
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+57%
21537
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3070
6762
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+55%
10545
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3070
3453
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+18%
4087
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
53
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+62%
86
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
95
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+64%
156
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
144
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+48%
214
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
46
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+41%
65
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
56
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+35%
76
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
82
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+40%
115
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
81
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+50%
122
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
141
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+41%
200
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
188
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+6%
200
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
68
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+91%
130
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
105
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+44%
152
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
159
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+18%
189
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
May 2022
GeForce 30
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1860 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
2310 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
80
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
5120
184
TMUs
320
96
ROPs
128
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
80
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
295.7 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
47.31 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1478 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
335W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Navi 21
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
26.8 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5
