NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 659.00

$ 399.99

$ 259.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points

12665 points

161% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

104 FPS

267 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

178 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

245 FPS

174 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

104 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

171% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

2098.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

127642 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

142477 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1800 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

2544 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

40% slightly lower TDP

245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

135% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

135% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

18.02 TFLOPS

141% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

4096

77% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

216

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 7700 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 has a slightly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT at 245 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7700 XT over the GeForce RTX 2070.