NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 729.99

$ 820.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14028 points

20741 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

332 FPS

418 FPS

85 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

295 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

240 FPS

379 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

170 FPS

36 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

174% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7249 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

3144.45 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

160380 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

194640 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2970 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 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

46% significantly higher memory bandwidth

640 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

380.2 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

48.7 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

128

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 597

8th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 9070 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 XT over the GeForce RTX 3090.

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