NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 8 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

8113 points
322% significantly better overall score
1919 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
152 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
101 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

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
245% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3950 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
46328 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
49594 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
43704 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
49% significantly higher core clock speed
1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
72% significantly higher boost clock speed
1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 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
16% slightly higher memory bandwidth
384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
25% slightly lower TDP
275 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
98% significantly higher texture rate
160 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
296% significantly better floating point performance
5.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
129% significantly more shading units
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
15% slightly more texture mapping units
160

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
215th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon R9 390 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 is faster than the Radeon R9 390.

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