NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 424.97

$ 1125.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

93% significantly better overall score

7241 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

186 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

147 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

108 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

131 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

110 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

82 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

74 FPS

Sons Of The Forest FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Sons Of The Forest FPS

75 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

62 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

55 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Medium settings at 1440p

65 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

22 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

12827 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

284% significantly higher Blender score

1515.19 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

102988 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

70085 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

100963 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

114437 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2321 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2581 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

12 GiB

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

143% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

230 W

52% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

165.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

413 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

169% significantly better floating point performance

13.21 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

309% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

104% significantly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 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 6700 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 230 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT.