GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Sep 2020
GeForce RTX 3070
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Jul 2019
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

GeForce RTX 3070

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
GPU NameGA104 (GA104-300-A1)vsNavi 10 (Navi 10 XT)
Fab Process8 nmvs7 nm
Die Size392 mm²vs254 mm²
Transistors17,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders5888vs2560
Compute Units46vs40
Core clock1500 MHzvs1680 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs184vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3070Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3070Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
TDP220 wattsvs225 watts
Release Date1 Sep 2020vs7 Jul 2019

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    110.40 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
    117.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    317.40 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
    468.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    448.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
    448.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3070
    20310.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
    9370.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better