NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800

Price

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$ 857.08

$ 599.99

$ 257.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

73 %

94 %

28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

180 FPS

188 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

92 FPS

143 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS

167 FPS

35 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

72 FPS

81 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064

3% slightly higher Geekbench (OpenCL) score

130322

Geekbench (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979

7% slightly higher Geekbench (Vulkan) score

93163

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13548

16423

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1815 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2105 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

512 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

202.1 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

25% slightly better floating point performance

16.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

53% significantly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

240

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 540

17th of 540

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2020

November 2020

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 6800 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 has a slightly 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 6800 also has a slightly 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, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 RX 6800 at 250 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 Radeon RX 6800 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.