AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070
VS
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
GA104
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB with 3456 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months older 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 7700 XT
- 73% higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 20.3 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 99 vs 88 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 70% more shading units (5888 vs 3456)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 186 117 96 70 |
147 99 86 61 |
| The Witcher 3 | 179 152 113 61 |
168 143 100 54 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 268 195 134 74 |
244 194 137 77 |
| Far Cry 6 | 145 131 110 63 |
132 121 96 54 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 106 89 69 39 |
97 80 62 35 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 148 143 102 64 |
121 113 85 52 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 111 90 73 44 |
89 74 56 31 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 115 103 65 31 |
106 94 59 28 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 192 176 130 67 |
165 153 113 60 |
| 1080p High | 161 | 141 |
| 1080p Ultra | 133 | 119 |
| 1440p Ultra | 99 | 88 |
| 4K Ultra | 57 | 50 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 17109 | 13644 |
| Solar Bay | 65104 | 64452 |
| Port Royal | 9114 | 8312 |
| Fire Strike | 42722 | 34056 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 30428 | 28488 |
| Night Raid | 147320 | 122159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 285.8 img/sec | 161.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 181.6 img/sec | 117.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.9 Gpixels/sec | 5.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 6.66 Gpixels/sec | 8.05 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.68 Gpixels/sec | 6.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.18 Gpixels/sec | 1.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 493 Gpixels/sec | 550.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 19410.5 FPS | 17613.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1157 | 1005 |
| DirectX 11 | 232 FPS | 183 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 83 FPS | 84 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 12985 Ops/s | 11007 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7700 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 135040 |
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) | 11284 | 7624 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 14150 | 23420 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27972 | 17898 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 35311 | 40535 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 142235 | 83624 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3836 | 2724 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4471 | 4481 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12084 | 10304 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 49197 | 30418 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 301429 | 180089 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and GeForce RTX 3070General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | September 6, 2023 | October 22, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | $499 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 32 | GA104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | - Radeon RX 7800 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 5070 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (33rd and 43rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1435 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2544 MHz | 1725 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3456 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 216 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 184 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 54 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 244 GPixel/s | 166 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 550 GTexel/s | 317 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 245 W | 220 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 346 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | 17 billion |
| Transistor Density | 80.92 MTr/mm² | 43.37 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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