NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 566.99

$ 983.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14028 points

5% slightly better overall score

13240 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

332 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

310 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

156 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

240 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

229 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

125 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

279% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5256 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

6174.82 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

188870 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

181089 points

0.71% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2325 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2512 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

672 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

250 W

40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

70% significantly more shading units

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

70% significantly more texture mapping units

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 597

27th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5070 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 over the GeForce RTX 5070.