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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070

Radeon RX 7800 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 3070
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
GA104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB with 3840 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (1)

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

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
96.5
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Performs better (up to 28%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 84% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 20.3 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 88 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 39% higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 448 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 53% more shading units (5888 vs 3840)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 7800 XT
vs
RTX 3070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
147
99
86
61
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
168
143
100
54
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
244
194
137
77
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
132
121
96
54
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
97
80
62
35
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
121
113
85
52
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
89
74
56
31
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
106
94
59
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
165
153
113
60
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 141
1080p Ultra 150 119
1440p Ultra 115 88
4K Ultra 67 50
Margin of Error Low 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
RX 7800 XT +28%
18111
RTX 3070
14152
Time Spy 20095 13644
Solar Bay 80667 64452
Port Royal 10917 8312
Fire Strike 50073 34056
Wild Life Extreme 37173 28488
Night Raid 160762 122159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7800 XT +18%
148335
RTX 3070
126195
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 161.6 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 117.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 5.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 8.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 550.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 FPS 17613.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7800 XT +11%
10740
RTX 3070
9652

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7800 XT +11%
24471
RTX 3070
22079
G2D Mark 1195 1005
DirectX 11 250 FPS 183 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 13617 Ops/s 11007 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11293 & 38662 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7800 XT
2422.93
RTX 3070 +39%
3356.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 865 & 4796 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL156177
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light19225
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL152506
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light18724
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GeForce RTX 3070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-11-15 (mit)Cinebench 20249652
Add View all (1)

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
RX 7800 XT +58%
31216
RTX 3070
19789
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7800 XT +13%
37266
RTX 3070
33013
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7800 XT +97%
24564
RTX 3070
12443
Image Classification (SP) 13913 7624
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 23420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 17898
Face Detection (HP) 51780 40535
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 83624
Text Classification (SP) 3655 2724
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 4481
Object Detection (SP) 15073 10304
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 30418
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 180089
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 3070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 October 22, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $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 4070 - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 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 - 184
Ray-tracing Cores 60 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 233 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 317 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +84%
37.3 TFLOPS
RTX 3070
20.3 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 263 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 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7800 XT +39%
624.1 GB/s
RTX 3070
448 GB/s

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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Jayz3cents due to inflation August 15, 2024 at 06:45 AM
8GB isn't enough VRAM in 2024 and beyond. Even Counterstrike 2 @ 1080P uses more on some maps.
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