AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months older GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6X
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
51.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Ti over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Performs slightly better (up to 18%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 72% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 21.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 21% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 95 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 60% more shading units (6144 vs 3840)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
157
101
93
66
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
177
149
104
57
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
255
203
142
83
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
136
127
106
61
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
104
85
69
38
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
129
121
92
58
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
96
78
62
34
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
113
100
65
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
176
167
124
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 149
1080p Ultra 150 126
1440p Ultra 115 95
4K Ultra 67 55
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 +18%
18111
15393
Time Spy 20095 14881
Solar Bay 80667 69901
Port Royal 10917 8884
Fire Strike 50073 37242
Wild Life Extreme 37173 31912
Night Raid 160762 134068
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
148335
136096
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 197 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 128.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 6.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 8.81 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 6.47 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.26 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 609.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 FPS 18205 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
10740
11990

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
24449
23173
G2D Mark 1194 1057
DirectX 11 250 FPS 192 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 90 FPS
GPU Compute 13608 Ops/s 11384 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]11060 & 17183 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2422.78
3735.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10]859 & 2274 samples

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
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
No benchmark results yet

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 +39%
31216
22516
GB6 ML Half Precision
37266
36377
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7800 XT +73%
24564
14215
Image Classification (SP) 13913 8615
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 24659
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 20631
Face Detection (HP) 51780 43834
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 98347
Text Classification (SP) 3655 3162
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 4911
Object Detection (SP) 15073 11498
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 34719
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 196833
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 June 10, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $599
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 Ti
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 36th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1575 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 MHz 1770 MHz
Shading Units 3840 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 48
Tensor Cores - 192
Ray-tracing Cores 60 48
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 170 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 340 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +72%
37.3 TFLOPS
21.7 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 290 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 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz 1188 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 19000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
624.1 GB/s
608.3 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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