NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30
$ 190.69 significantly less expensive
$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
14445 points
78% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
292 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
213 FPS
116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
260 FPS
120 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
124 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
223% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4221 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
2747.99 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
176249 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
177326 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
1890 MHz
25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
2310 MHz
33% 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
576 GB/s
28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
52% significantly lower TDP
335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
295.7 Gigapixels/s
78% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
739.2 Gigatexels/s
132% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
23.65 TFLOPS
16% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
15% slightly more shading units
5120

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
320
73% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
128
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
20th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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