NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 945.00

$ 604.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

127% significantly better overall score

6138 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

226 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

100 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

106 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

118% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9129 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

612% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

77122 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

92086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

Identical

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

3% slightly 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

4096 Bit

966% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

1024 GB/s

9% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

300 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

64% significantly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

432.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

157% significantly better floating point performance

13.8 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

173% significantly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

36% slightly more texture mapping units

240

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

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon VII comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the Radeon VII in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the GeForce RTX 3090 and Radeon VII both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon VII 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon VII has a slightly lower TDP at 300 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 VII.