NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8141 points

332% significantly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

198 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

45 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

141 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

242% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3987 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

43067 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48969 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44042 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

82% significantly higher boost clock speed

947 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

13% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

158% significantly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

80% significantly higher texture rate

176 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

260% significantly better floating point performance

5.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

109% significantly more shading units

2816

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

4% slightly more texture mapping units

176

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

52nd of 604

220th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon R9 290X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 290X in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the Radeon R9 290X.