ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070
vs
Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 has 5888 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.76 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 20.66 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition has 5120 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.37 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 24.22 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 46 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 GPU Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GA104-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 21
Ampere Architecture RDNA 2
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
5888 Shader 5120
96 Render Output Units 128
184 Texture Units 320
46 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 has a turbo clock of 1.755 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition is 2.365 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.825 GHz
1.755 GHz Boost Clock 2.365 GHz
1.73 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.14 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

220 W TDP 400 W
250 W TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
43-45 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

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.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 is 52 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition is 52 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 270 mm
135 mm Height 130 mm
52 mm Width 45 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1148 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3070 was released in Q4/2020.

The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Limited Edition published in Q1/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

DUAL-RTX3070-8G Part-no 11308-04-20G
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2021
649 $ Launch Price 1,499 $
8 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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