AMD Radeon RX 6700S vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 6700S
Navi 23
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E5)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6700S with 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the 1 year older GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 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
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6700S
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 52%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (16.6 vs 6.8 TFLOPS)
- Shows 45% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 47 FPS
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 224 GB/s
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Achieves 62% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (118K vs 73K)
- Has 2.9x more shading units (5120 vs 1792)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 113 60 47 30 |
124 78 67 49 |
| The Witcher 3 | 93 76 50 27 |
137 112 82 43 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 154 106 74 38 |
199 149 109 57 |
| Far Cry 6 | 87 75 55 28 |
107 96 75 41 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 52 46 34 16 |
78 65 47 24 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 75 66 45 29 |
93 84 59 42 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 58 46 33 18 |
73 58 45 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 56 50 28 13 |
80 71 44 18 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 98 85 57 27 |
127 114 84 44 |
| 1080p High | 87 | 113 |
| 1080p Ultra | 68 | 92 |
| 1440p Ultra | 47 | 68 |
| 4K Ultra | 25 | 38 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 7811 | 10477 |
| Solar Bay | 29526 | 45198 |
| Port Royal | 3806 | 6247 |
| Fire Strike | 22441 | 26725 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 13952 | 21132 |
| Night Raid | 79014 | 82499 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 170.5 img/sec | 170.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 102.1 img/sec | 113.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.32 Gpixels/sec | 5.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.12 Gpixels/sec | 7.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.82 Gpixels/sec | 6.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.79 Gpixels/sec | 1.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 312.4 Gpixels/sec | 467 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 10541.1 FPS | 15131.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 733 | 626 |
| DirectX 11 | 133 FPS | 137 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 62 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5877 Ops/s | 6642 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6700S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517) | GeekBench | 123169 |
| 📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517) | Cinebench 2024 | 10455 |
| 📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517) | GeekBench | 122261 |
| 📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517) | Steel Nomad Light | 12032 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 5863 | 6969 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6887 | 17142 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 16463 | 16426 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 17257 | 31628 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 64202 | 74413 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2123 | 2522 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3125 | 3639 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 4814 | 9002 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 24189 | 27790 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 136875 | 160005 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6700S and GeForce RTX 3070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 4, 2022 | January 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 23 | GA104 (GN20-E5) |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop | - Radeon RX 6700M |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 7700S | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS or above | - Intel Core i7 12700H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 48th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 780-1215 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1890 MHz | 1290-1620 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 112 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 28 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 28 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 121 GPixel/s | 103-130 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 212 GTexel/s | 206-259 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80 W | 80-150 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 237 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 11.06 billion | 17.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | 46.67 MTr/mm² | 44.39 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1500-1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 12000-14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 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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