NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, 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

$ 559.30
$ 118.69 slightly less expensive
$ 677.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
37% slightly better overall score
5888 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
145 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
85 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
103 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
66 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
10586 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
2096.93 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
117173 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
105171 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
73163 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
103585 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
93415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
1620 MHz
8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
1815 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
Identical
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
4% slightly lower TDP
230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
42% slightly higher pixel rate
116.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
348.5 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
82% significantly better floating point performance
11.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
91% significantly more shading units
3072

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
192
4% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
49% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
85th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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 vs Quadro RTX 5000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the Quadro RTX 5000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro RTX 5000 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 Quadro RTX 5000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the Quadro RTX 5000.

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