AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1725MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +677%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1788

GeForce RTX 3070 +662%

13637

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce RTX 3070 +1666%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce RTX 3070 +691%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce RTX 3070 +585%

144

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

GeForce RTX 3070 +636%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560

32

GeForce RTX 3070 +340%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

40

GeForce RTX 3070 +370%

188

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce RTX 3070 +69%

159

Radeon RX 560

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GA104

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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