NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 385.70 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

32% slightly better overall score

6138 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

100 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

106 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9129 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

313% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

77122 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

92086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

1750 MHz

1% slightly 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

1024 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

36% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

13.8 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

53% significantly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

240

30% slightly more texture mapping units

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

53rd of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon VII comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 beats the Radeon VII in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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. Despite this, the Radeon VII has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon VII 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 GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the Radeon VII.