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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Price

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$ 1549.99
$ 566.99
$ 983.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
6% slightly better overall score
13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
27 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
305 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

241 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
227 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
124 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points
279% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
6174.82 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
188870 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
27th of 586

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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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.

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

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