AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Price

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$ 699.99

$ 157.09 slightly less expensive

$ 857.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

55 %

73 %

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

180 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

92 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

132 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

72 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9625

13548

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

673.89

3529.72

423% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091

135064

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806

99979

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

77302

128556

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

88142

115911

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1500 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

220 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 549

22nd of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon 5700 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019

September 2020

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT also 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 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 GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the Radeon RX 5700 XT.