NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

Price

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$ 541.95

$ 399.99

$ 141.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

12665 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

267 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

178 FPS

37 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

245 FPS

39 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

104 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3316 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

157% significantly higher Blender score

2098.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

127642 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

142477 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1800 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2544 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

Identical

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

432 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

245 W

22% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

244 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

550 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

93% significantly better floating point performance

18.02 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

75% significantly more shading units

4096

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

3% slightly more texture mapping units

216

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586

29th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 245 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7700 XT over the GeForce RTX 4070.