NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 639.00
$ 40.99 slightly less expensive
$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8845 points
19220 points
117% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

210 FPS
393 FPS
183 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS
273 FPS
170 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

151 FPS
362 FPS
211 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS
158 FPS
75 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

39 FPS
40 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
Call of Duty FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

132 FPS
181 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS
Far Cry 6 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS
124 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS
God of War FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

93 FPS
142 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

76 FPS
103 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS
156 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS
Resident Evil Village FPS

Resident Evil Village FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

135 FPS
148 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Resident Evil Village FPS
Days Gone FPS

Days Gone FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

158 FPS
194 FPS
36 FPS slightly higher Days Gone FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

152 FPS
190 FPS
38 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

118 FPS
244 FPS
126 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

101 FPS
189 FPS
88 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14857 points
164% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5616 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3754.04 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
3540.90 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

138062 points
187759 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131952 points
213258 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1575 MHz
1800 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz
2400 MHz
35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
20 GiB
150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

608.3 GB/s
800 GB/s
31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

290 W
8% slightly lower TDP
315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigapixels/s
460 Gigapixels/s
170% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

339.8 Gigatexels/s
810 Gigatexels/s
138% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

21.75 TFLOPS
54.07 TFLOPS
148% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144
12288
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192
768
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
192
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 586
10th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2022 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 7900 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 3070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 290 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.

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