NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 2888.01 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

665% significantly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

295 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

203 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

443% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

424% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

479% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

326% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

8 GiB

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

936.2 GB/s

343% significantly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

120 W

191% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

391% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

260% significantly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

620% significantly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

412% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

156% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 470 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 470 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 470 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the Radeon RX 470.