NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 120.69 slightly less expensive

$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

19220 points

136% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

393 FPS

196 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

273 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

362 FPS

221 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

158 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

69 FPS

111 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher A Plague Tale: Requiem FPS

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

169 FPS

297 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

79 FPS

153 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

181 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

62 FPS

103 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

115 FPS

153 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Days Gone FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

124 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

231 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

142 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

156 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Mafia: Definitive Edition FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

105 FPS

166 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Mafia: Definitive Edition FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

143% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

3540.90 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

187759 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

213258 points

76% significantly 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

2400 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

20 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

800 GB/s

78% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

43% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

177% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

155% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

166% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

12288

108% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

768

317% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 December

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 7900 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT also has a slightly 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 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 significantly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3070.