NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30
$ 170.69 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
20889 points
157% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
420 FPS
223 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
300 FPS
204 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
380 FPS
239 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
172 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 3070 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
88% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7249 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
3144.45 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
160380 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
194640 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
2970 MHz
72% 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
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
640 GB/s
42% much higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
129% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
139% significantly better floating point performance

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
8th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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 9070 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 XT over the GeForce RTX 3070.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons