NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30

$ 99.70 slightly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

11265 points

38% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

231 FPS

34 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

167 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

204 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

97 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

163 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

89 FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

131 FPS

139 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

126 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

74 FPS

137 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

127 FPS

231 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

90 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

76 FPS

83 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Days Gone FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

122 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

85 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

19436 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

2414.65 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

157812 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

100571 points

0.59% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

154801 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

157877 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

2015 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2250 MHz

30% 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

36% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

27% slightly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

288

56% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

33rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 November

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 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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