NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

1268% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

857% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

3714% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

1441% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

1016% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

1279% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

962% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

400% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2000 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

45 W

388% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

935% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

395% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

891% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

1049% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

475% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 January

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 Vega 8 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the Radeon Vega 8.