NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1725 MHz vs 1630 MHz
760.6x more texture fill rate: 317.4 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Around 44% higher pipelines: 5888 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 220 Watt vs 225 Watt

Launch date	1 Sep 2020 vs 8 August 2017
Boost clock speed	1725 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	317.4 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5888 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 58% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 124864

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 124864

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

124864

196748

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	22412
PassMark - G2D Mark	999
Geekbench - OpenCL	124864	196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	452.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	5803.174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	40.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	184.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1634.218
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	31716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	13566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	31930
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	31716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	13566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	31930
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	13608

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA104	Vega 10
Launch date	1 Sep 2020	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$499
Place in performance rating	42	35
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1725 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	20.31 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888	4096
Pixel fill rate	165.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	317.4 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	220 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	112 mm (4.4 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2