NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 749.99
$ 609.69
$ 140.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
14149 points
21% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
291 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
217 FPS
76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
278 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
134 FPS
23 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
180% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
2743.15 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
167848 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
2520 MHz
47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB
16 GiB
60% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
25% slightly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
18% slightly higher memory bandwidth
640 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
96% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
21% slightly 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

32nd of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 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

GDDR6X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon RX 9070 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 over the GeForce RTX 3080.

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