NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 260 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 260 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1395 MHz
  • Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 2245 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 718.4 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4608
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 73% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 167089 vs 96838
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1162 vs 548
  • Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27005 vs 15893
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 Jul 2023 vs 21 Mar 2023
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed 2245 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate 718.4 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 4608
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 167089 vs 96838
PassMark - G2D Mark 1162 vs 548
PassMark - G3D Mark 27005 vs 15893

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
96838
167089
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
548
1162
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15893
27005
Name NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Geekbench - OpenCL 96838 167089
PassMark - G2D Mark 548 1162
PassMark - G3D Mark 15893 27005
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4814

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 3.0
Code name AD106 Navi 31
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 27 Jul 2023
Place in performance rating 103 33

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 2245 MHz
Core clock speed 1395 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 5 nm
Pipelines 4608 5120
Pixel fill rate 81.36 GPixel/s 431.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 244.1 GTexel/s 718.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 260 Watt
Transistor count 22900 million 57700 million
Compute units 80

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Height 51 mm, 2 inches
Length 276 mm, 10.9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Width 110 mm, 4.3 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 576.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6