NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2087MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +26%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X

16.03 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon Pro W6800X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1800 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2087 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

5888

Shading Units

3840

184

TMUs

240

96

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.4 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

500.9 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.06 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.03 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1002 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

Apple MPX

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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