AMD Radeon RX 6700M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6700M 10 GB with 36 pipelines and 2304 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Mobile over RX 6700M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6700M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 57% higher maximum theoretical performance (16.6 vs 10.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 59 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 60% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 280 GB/s
  • Achieves 29% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (118K vs 92K)
  • Has 2.2x more shading units (5120 vs 2304)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
129
75
61
39
124
78
67
49
The Witcher 3
115
98
67
36
137
112
82
43
Counter-Strike 2
190
128
92
47
199
149
109
57
Far Cry 6
102
90
64
36
107
96
75
41
Hogwarts Legacy
69
59
38
20
78
65
47
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
92
85
58
38
93
84
59
42
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
43
23
73
58
45
24
Cyberpunk 2077
68
61
35
16
80
71
44
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
121
105
75
34
127
114
84
44
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 107 113
1080p Ultra 85 92
1440p Ultra 59 68
4K Ultra 32 38
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
8835
10216
Time Spy 9498 10477
Solar Bay 37660 45198
Port Royal 4554 6247
Fire Strike 27927 26725
Wild Life Extreme 17363 21132
Night Raid 72638 82499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
92153
118499
Background Blur 209.2 img/sec 170.3 img/sec
Face Detection 115.4 img/sec 113.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.3 Gpixels/sec 5.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.7 Gpixels/sec 7.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.81 Gpixels/sec 6.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.94 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 327.1 Gpixels/sec 467 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13207.5 FPS 15131.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13624
15017
G2D Mark 558 626
DirectX 11 129 FPS 137 FPS
DirectX 12 64 FPS 62 FPS
GPU Compute 5212 Ops/s 6642 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 198 & 8902 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1023.19
2973.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 29 & 1893 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6700M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL123169
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Cinebench 202410455
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122261
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Steel Nomad Light12032

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
14369
17250
GB6 ML Half Precision
15396
27936
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6700M +10%
12333
Image Classification (SP) 5874 6969
Image Segmentation (HP) 8129 17142
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18554 16426
Face Detection (HP) 18625 31628
Pose Estimation (Q) 84252 74413
Text Classification (SP) 1089 2522
Machine Translation (HP) 3605 3639
Object Detection (SP) 7294 9002
Depth Estimation (Q) 31037 27790
Style Transfer (SP) 154983 160005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6700M and GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 1, 2021 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 22 GA104 (GN20-E5)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop - Radeon RX 6700M
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800H or above - Intel Core i7 12700H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (65th and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1489 MHz 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1720-2300 MHz (configurable) 1290-1620 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2304 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 40
Tensor Cores - 160
Ray-tracing Cores 36 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 110-147 GPixel/s 103-130 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 248-331 GTexel/s 206-259 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
7.9-10.6 TFLOPS
13.2-16.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 80-135 W (configurable) 80-150 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 7 nm 8 nm
Die Size 335 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 17.2 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 51.34 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 10 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 160-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
280 GB/s
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4a

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