AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (2815MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +252%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

GeForce RTX 3070 +178%

13673

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce RTX 3070 +253%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3070 +206%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce RTX 3070 +206%

144

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

GeForce RTX 3070 +228%

46

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

GeForce RTX 3070 +194%

56

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3070 +164%

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce RTX 3070 +200%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce RTX 3070 +171%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce RTX 3070 +172%

188

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce RTX 3070 +126%

68

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3070 +144%

105

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3070 +65%

159

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1024

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

16

RT Cores

46

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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