AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Better figure, where one is clearly better
| AMDRadeon RX 7900 XT | NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3070 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Released | December 2022 | June 2021 |
| Performance | ||
| Chip maker | AMD | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | RDNA 3 | Ampere |
| Shader cores | 5,376 | 6,144 |
| Boost clock | 2,400 MHz (better) | 1,770 MHz |
| Architecture | 84 compute units, 192 ROPs; game clock 2000 MHz; 58 billion transistors | 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 | Chiplet design; 5nm Graphics Compute Die with 6nm Memory Cache Dies | – |
| Ray tracing | 84 second-generation Ray Accelerators | Second-generation RT Cores |
| AI cores | 168 AI Accelerators; 103 TOPS INT8 | Third-generation Tensor Cores |
| Upscaling and frame generation | AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution | NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation |
| Base clock | – | NVIDIA lists 1.58 GHz rounded; stock-clock PNY REVEL specifies 1575 MHz base and 1770 MHz boost |
| Cache | 80 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation) | – |
| Memory | ||
| Video memory | 20 GB GDDR6 (better) | 8 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 320-bit (better) | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 800 GB/s (better) | 608 GB/s |
| Memory detail | GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 2900 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache | 19 Gbps GDDR6X; 608 GB/s bandwidth verified by PNY's stock-clock REVEL specification |
| Connections and power | ||
| Board power | 315 W | 290 W (better) |
| Interface | – | PCIe 4.0 |
| Display outputs | DisplayPort 2.1 (UHBR 13.5), HDMI 2.1a, USB Type-C | 3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3 |
| Maximum resolution | Up to 4K 480 Hz or 8K 165 Hz over DisplayPort 2.1 | 7680 × 4320; HDMI supports 4K 120 Hz HDR or 8K 60 Hz HDR; DisplayPort supports 4K 240 Hz with DSC |
| Power connector | 2 × 8-pin | 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition) |
| Recommended power supply | 750 W | 750 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system |
| Slot width | 2.5-slot (reference card) | 2-slot (Founders Edition) |
| Size (reference card) | 276 mm long, 2.5-slot (reference card) | 267 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition) |
| Video encode and decode | H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode | Seventh-generation NVENC and fifth-generation NVDEC; no hardware AV1 encoding |
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