NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2394MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +153%

51.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070

13673

Radeon RX 7900 XT +96%

26911

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

53

Radeon RX 7900 XT +92%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070

95

Radeon RX 7900 XT +115%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

144

Radeon RX 7900 XT +107%

299

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

46

Radeon RX 7900 XT +8%

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070

56

Radeon RX 7900 XT +67%

94

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

82

Radeon RX 7900 XT +92%

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

68

Radeon RX 7900 XT +150%

170

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070

105

Radeon RX 7900 XT +61%

170

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

159

Radeon RX 7900 XT +19%

190

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

82

Radeon RX 7900 XT +59%

131

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070

61

Radeon RX 7900 XT +72%

105

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

39

Radeon RX 7900 XT +74%

68

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1387 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

5376

184

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

192

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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