AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Radeon RX 6700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

	AMDRadeon RX 6700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Overview
Released
Released	March 2021	June 2021
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 2	Ampere
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	6,144
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,581 MHz (better)	1,770 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	AMD reference specification; 40 compute units and 17.2 billion transistors. AMD's current product table labels 1 March 2021 as the launch date, but its announcement specifies 18 March as the first on-sale date used here.	NVIDIA reference specifications. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan; its cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	40 Ray Accelerators; DirectX Raytracing support	Second-generation RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	Third-generation Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR); AMD Radeon Super Resolution	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	2321 MHz base, 2424 MHz game frequency and up to 2581 MHz boost; AMD defines boost for bursty workloads rather than sustained gaming	NVIDIA lists 1.58 GHz rounded; stock-clock PNY REVEL specifies 1575 MHz base and 1770 MHz boost
Cache
Cache	96 MB AMD Infinity Cache	–
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	12 GB GDDR6 (better)	8 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus
Memory bus	192-bit	256-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	384 GB/s	608 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	Up to 16 Gbps GDDR6; 384 GB/s physical memory bandwidth. AMD separately claims up to 1278 GB/s effective bandwidth including Infinity Cache; this is not used as the physical bandwidth figure.	19 Gbps GDDR6X; 608 GB/s bandwidth verified by PNY's stock-clock REVEL specification
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	230 W (better)	290 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1 supporting 4K 120 Hz or 8K 60 Hz with VRR	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	–	7680 × 4320; HDMI supports 4K 120 Hz HDR or 8K 60 Hz HDR; DisplayPort supports 4K 240 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 8-pin and 1 × PCIe 6-pin	2 × PCIe 8-pin cables through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	650 W	750 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (AMD reference)	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	267 mm long (AMD reference); no reference width or height verified	267 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Hardware AV1 decoding; H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC and fifth-generation NVDEC; no hardware AV1 encoding