The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (Ampere) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 185 % faster than the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5.
The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 has the Polaris 30 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GA104-300-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
Memory
Memory
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.750 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
14.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
448 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The graphics memory of the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 8.0 Gbps.
The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.500 GHz
Boost Clock
1.545 GHz
1.725 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
TDP
225 W
220 W
TDP (up)
--
240 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
93 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
1 x 8-Pin
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The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 225 W.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 220 W.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 95 mm
2 x 85 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
Noise (Load)
--
37 dB
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The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.
Connectivity
Connectivity
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
--
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Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.
Featureset
Featureset
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
Non addressable LED
No LED lighting
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With the Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.
The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
Decode
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The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.
Dimensions
Dimensions
Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Length
260 mm
242 mm
Height
135 mm
112 mm
Width
43 mm
--
Width (Slots)
3 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
--
1,034 g
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The Sapphire NITRO RX 590 8G G5 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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