AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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Radeon RX 7700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 3070

	AMDRadeon RX 7700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3070
Overview
Released
Released	September 2023	October 2020
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 3	Ampere
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,456	5,888
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,544 MHz (better)	1,730 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	54 compute units, 96 ROPs; game clock 2171 MHz; 28.1 billion transistors	GA104; 46 Streaming Multiprocessors. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo shows PNY's stock-clock UPRISING Dual Fan LHR revision, whose cooler and dimensions differ from the Founders Edition.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	Samsung 8 nm 8N NVIDIA custom process; 17.4 billion transistors; 392.5 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	54 second-generation Ray Accelerators	46 second-generation RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	108 AI Accelerators; 70.3 TOPS INT8	184 third-generation Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	–	1.50 GHz; the NVIDIA architecture whitepaper specifies 1,725 MHz boost, rounded to 1.73 GHz on the current specification page
Cache
Cache	48 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation)	4,096 KB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	12 GB GDDR6 (better)	8 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	192-bit	256-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	432 GB/s	448 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	GDDR6 at up to 18 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 1995 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache	14 Gbps GDDR6
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	245 W	220 W (better)
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1	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
Power connector
Power connector	2 × 8-pin	1 × PCIe 8-pin cable through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	700 W	650 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system
Slot width
Slot width	2.5-slot (reference card)	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	267 mm long, 2.5-slot (reference card)	242 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC, fifth-generation NVDEC; hardware AV1 decode, no AV1 encode