NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30

$ 990.69 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

13991 points

72% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

333 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

169 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

241 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

134 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

69 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

65 FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

79 FPS

107 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

98 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Dead Space FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

100 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Dead Space FPS

95 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

95 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

110 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

118 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

131 FPS

166 FPS

35 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

108 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Metro Exodus FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

71 FPS

87 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Metro Exodus FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

74 FPS

113 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

19931 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

5820.93 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

238123 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

204921 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

138859 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

194465 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

179816 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% 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

448 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

59% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

75% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

75% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

10496

78% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

328

78% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 3090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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 GeForce RTX 3070 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 GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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