AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (2310MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +16%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +57%

21420

GeForce RTX 3070

13620

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +62%

86

GeForce RTX 3070

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +64%

156

GeForce RTX 3070

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +48%

214

GeForce RTX 3070

144

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +41%

65

GeForce RTX 3070

46

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +35%

76

GeForce RTX 3070

56

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +40%

115

GeForce RTX 3070

82

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +50%

122

GeForce RTX 3070

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +41%

200

GeForce RTX 3070

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +6%

200

GeForce RTX 3070

188

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +88%

130

GeForce RTX 3070

69

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +44%

152

GeForce RTX 3070

105

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +18%

189

GeForce RTX 3070

159

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

5888

320

TMUs

184

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

80

RT Cores

46

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

220W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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