NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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

12381% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

220% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

42% much higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 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

146% significantly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

184.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

243% significantly better floating point performance

5.91 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

53rd of 586

537th of 586

Family

The product line

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon R9 390X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 390X in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 has a much 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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 390X at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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