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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB GDDR6 · 2.58 GHz · 230 W Speed index 11/100

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.58 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 13.21 TFLOPS.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) 8 GB GDDR6 · 1.73 GHz · 220 W Speed index 17/100

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) has 5888 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 20.31 TFLOPS.

Quick comparison

In FP32 performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is 54 % faster than the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Speed index
11/100
17/100
FP32
13.21 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
Boost Clock
2.58 GHz
1.73 GHz
Memory Size
12 GB GDDR6
8 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s
448 GB/s
TDP
230 W
220 W
Launch Price
479 $
499 $

GPU

GPUAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Based onAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR
GPU ChipNavi 22 XTGA104-302-A1
Streaming Multiprocessors4046
Shader25605888
Render Output Units6496
Texture Units160184
Raytracing Cores4046
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 40 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.

Memory

MemoryAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Memory Size12 GB8 GB
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6
Memory Clock2.000 GHz1.750 GHz
Memory Speed16.0 Gbps14.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s448 GB/s
Memory Interface192 bit256 bit
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

Clock Speeds

Clock SpeedsAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Base Clock2.321 GHz1.500 GHz
Boost Clock2.581 GHz1.725 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock2.42 GHz--
OverclockingYesYes
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has a turbo clock of 2.581 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is 1.725 GHz.

Thermal Design

Thermal DesignAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
TDP230 W220 W
TDP (up)--240 W
Tjunction max100 °C93 °C
PCIe-Power1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin1 x 8-Pin
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

Cooler & Fans

Cooler & FansAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Fan-TypeAxialAxial
Fan 1--2 x 85 mm
Cooler-TypeAir coolingAir cooling
Noise (Idle)0 dB0 dB
Noise (Load)--37 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is cooled by a Air cooling.

Connectivity

ConnectivityAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Max. Displays44
HDCP2.32.3
HDMI1x HDMI 2.11x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort3x DP 1.4a3x DP 1.4a
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

Featureset

FeaturesetAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Max. resolution7680x43207680x4320
DirectX12_2 (Ultimate)12_2 (Ultimate)
RaytracingYesYes
DLSS / FSRYesYes
LEDNo LED lightingNo LED lighting
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

Supported Video Codecs

Supported Video CodecsAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
h264Decode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h265 / HEVCDecode / EncodeDecode / Encode
VP8Decode / EncodeDecode
VP9Decode / EncodeDecode
AV1DecodeDecode
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Dimensions

DimensionsAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
Length--242 mm
Height--112 mm
Width (Slots)2 Slots2 Slots
Weight--1,034 g
SFF-ReadyNoNo
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The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Additional data

Additional dataAMD Radeon RX 6700 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
GPU InterfacePCIe 4.0 x 16PCIe 4.0 x 16
Release dateQ1/2021Q3/2021
Launch Price479 $499 $
Structure size7 nm8 nm
Documentsdata sheetdata sheet
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Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT was released in Q1/2021.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) published in Q3/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +10.0 %

  1. 5,955
  2. 6,549

Port Royal (Raytracing) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +35.5 %

  1. 6,008
  2. 8,139

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +56.2 %

  1. 2,188
  2. 3,417

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +12.5 %

  1. 40 fps (avg)
  2. 45 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +10.2 %

  1. 49 fps (avg)
  2. 54 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +9.5 %

  1. 74 fps (avg)
  2. 81 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

  1. no data
  2. 22 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +8.7 %

  1. 46 fps (avg)
  2. 50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +16.7 %

  1. 84 fps (avg)
  2. 98 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +2.6 %

  1. 76 fps (avg)
  2. 78 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT +2.9 %

  1. 144 fps (avg)
  2. 140 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT +4.3 %

  1. 194 fps (avg)
  2. 186 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +30.2 %

  1. 96,956
  2. 126,216

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) +9.8 %

  1. 108,643
  2. 119,264

Geekbench 6 - Metal

  1. 151,246
  2. no data

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