NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
11.4x more pipelines: 5120 vs 448
8.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 92696 vs 11203
2.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2380 vs 1069

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 7 Jan 2020
Pipelines	5120 vs 448
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	92696 vs 11203
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2380 vs 1069

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1290 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm

Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

92696

11203

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2380

1069

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
PassMark - G3D Mark	15361
PassMark - G2D Mark	643
Geekbench - OpenCL	92696	11203
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	449.647
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4619.617
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	36.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	181.818
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1410.887
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	13334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	13334
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2380	1069

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Vega
Code name	GA104	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	7 Jan 2020
Place in performance rating	81	1317
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1290 MHz	1600 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	206.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	13.21 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.21 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120	448
Pixel fill rate	103.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	206.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready