NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 339.99

$ 219.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8141 points

8641 points

6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

198 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

181 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

134 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

141 FPS

162 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

69 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

79 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

131 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

110 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

127 FPS

157 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

55 FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

High settings at 1440p

78 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS

59 FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

High settings at 1080p

88 FPS

91 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

481% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2348 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

164% significantly higher Blender score

1276.88 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

83213 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98317 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2755 MHz

59% significantly 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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

190 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

176.3 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

352.6 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

22.57 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

43% significantly more texture mapping units

128

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

52nd of 597

46th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 7600 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7600 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 Radeon RX 7600 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 190 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7600 XT over the GeForce RTX 3070.

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