NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 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

$ 1499.95
$ 819.99
$ 679.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

16207 points
19081 points
17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

382 FPS
424 FPS
41 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

188 FPS
223 FPS
36 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

275 FPS
323 FPS
48 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

151 FPS
180 FPS
29 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

21929 points
221% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6821 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6069.41 points
7588.31 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

207329 points
239264 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

187369 points
228386 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1560 MHz
2295 MHz
47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2452 MHz
57% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1008 GB/s
12% slightly higher memory bandwidth
896 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W
300 W
49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

208.3 Gigapixels/s
235.4 Gigapixels/s
13% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

625 Gigatexels/s
686.6 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10752
20% slightly more shading units
8960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336
20% slightly more texture mapping units
280

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
16% slightly more render output processors
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

16th of 586
11th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5070 Ti specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti beats the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

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