NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 559.30
$ 399.99
$ 159.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
12665 points
56% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
267 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
178 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
245 FPS
105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
104 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
311% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3316 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
2098.98 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
0.44% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
127642 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
142477 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
1800 MHz
20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
2544 MHz
47% 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
3% slightly higher memory bandwidth
432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
11% slightly lower TDP
245 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
244 Gigapixels/s
47% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
550 Gigatexels/s
73% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
12% slightly better floating point performance
18.02 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
43% significantly more shading units
4096

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
216
17% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
Identical
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
29th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
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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 7700 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 7700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 7700 XT at 245 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7700 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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