NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 424.97

$ 134.33 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

12% slightly better overall score

7241 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

147 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

108 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

131 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

169 FPS

246 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

62 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

46 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher ELDEN RING FPS

60 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

82 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

74 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

12827 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

123% significantly higher Blender score

1515.19 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

102988 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

70085 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

100963 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

114437 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

2321 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2581 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

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

4% slightly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

0.24% slightly higher pixel rate

165.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

53% significantly better floating point performance

13.21 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the Radeon RX 6700 XT in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 RX 6700 XT at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the Radeon RX 6700 XT.