AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs GeForce RTX 3070
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AMD Radeon RX 6800
Navi 21
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
GA104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800
- Shows 9% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 96 vs 88 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
- 25% higher maximum theoretical performance (20.3 vs 16.2 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 53% more shading units (5888 vs 3840)
- Features 184 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 175 114 95 66 |
147 99 86 61 |
| The Witcher 3 | 172 148 108 57 |
168 143 100 54 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 265 193 131 75 |
244 194 137 77 |
| Far Cry 6 | 146 129 106 61 |
132 121 96 54 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 106 86 68 36 |
97 80 62 35 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 146 135 97 63 |
121 113 85 52 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 110 89 70 43 |
89 74 56 31 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 113 98 65 32 |
106 94 59 28 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 179 168 122 63 |
165 153 113 60 |
| 1080p High | 157 | 141 |
| 1080p Ultra | 129 | 119 |
| 1440p Ultra | 96 | 88 |
| 4K Ultra | 55 | 50 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 16227 | 13644 |
| Solar Bay | 64715 | 64452 |
| Port Royal | 8145 | 8312 |
| Fire Strike | 44367 | 34056 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 29767 | 28488 |
| Night Raid | 142456 | 122159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 298.6 img/sec | 161.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 186.2 img/sec | 117.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.75 Gpixels/sec | 5.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 6.68 Gpixels/sec | 8.05 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.58 Gpixels/sec | 6.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.16 Gpixels/sec | 1.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 579 Gpixels/sec | 550.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 18755.1 FPS | 17613.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1002 | 1005 |
| DirectX 11 | 211 FPS | 183 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 90 FPS | 84 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 10751 Ops/s | 11007 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6800
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-11-15 (mit) | Cinebench 2024 | 9652 |
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) | 11245 | 7624 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 13617 | 23420 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27747 | 17898 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 38124 | 40535 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 119493 | 83624 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2425 | 2724 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5228 | 4481 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 11986 | 10304 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 46083 | 30418 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 281860 | 180089 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800 and GeForce RTX 3070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 28, 2020 | October 22, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $579 | $499 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 21 | GA104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | - Radeon RX 7800 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12600 or above | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 43rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2105 MHz | 1725 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3840 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 240 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 60 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 202 GPixel/s | 166 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 505 GTexel/s | 317 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 250 W | 220 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 26 billion | 17 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50 MTr/mm² | 43.37 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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