PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT has 5376 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.40 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 51.61 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR has 5888 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.76 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 20.66 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR
Navi 31 GPU Chip GA104-302-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Ampere
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
5376 Shader 5888
192 Render Output Units 96
336 Texture Units 184
84 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a 20 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.500 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

20 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.400 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR is 1.755 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
2.400 GHz Boost Clock 1.755 GHz
2.00 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 97 °C.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

300 W TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR 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
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

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 / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT is 51 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR is 51 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

276 mm Length 305 mm
113 mm Height 121 mm
51 mm Width 52 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 992 g
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, PowerColor Radeon RX 7900 XT was released in Q4/2022.

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X PLUS 8G OC LHR published in Q2/2023 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

RX 7900 XT 20G Part-no --
Q4/2022 Release date Q2/2023
899 $ Launch Price 499 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 8 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

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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