AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1725MHz vs 1600MHz)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +54%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

7078

GeForce RTX 3070 +93%

13673

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2020

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

4096

Shading Units

5888

256

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

220W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA104

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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