NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +394%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

5888

Shading Units

2048

184

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tonga

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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