AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$749.99 May 2022 View Details

$829.99

$749.99

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

$520.00 Aug 2020 View Details

$520.00

$847.00

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W $520.00 Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory Size	16 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6
TDP	335 W	220 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	1725 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5120	5888
RT Cores	80	46
TMUs	320	184
ROPs	128	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	20.31 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	392 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	17400 Million
Required PSU	700 W	550 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

21011 (+49%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

14126

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

189857 (+50%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

126195

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.6 FPS (+80%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

170.2 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

28129 (+26%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

22256

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (339 benchmarks)

Borderlands 4

7.8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gearbox Software

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+61%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+131%)

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+186%)

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 7 FPS

MIN 6 FPS

Winner

Loser

Split Fiction

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure • Hazelight Studios

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+35%)

AVG 173 FPS

MIN 148 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+43%)

AVG 133 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+46%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

7.9 2025 • Action, Adventure • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+104%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+135%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+392%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 5 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+100%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+143%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+633%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 3 FPS

MIN 2 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sniper Elite Resistance

8.5 2025 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+50%)

AVG 192 FPS

MIN 171 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+63%)

AVG 160 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+65%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

Winner

Loser

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

8.1 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Square Enix

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+9%)

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+24%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+56%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assetto Corsa EVO

6 2025 • Racing, Simulation, Sports, Early Access • KUNOS Simulazioni

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+450%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 10 FPS

MIN 2 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+880%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 5 FPS

MIN 1 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+1700%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 2 FPS

MIN 1 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Wins!

Based on 339 benchmarks across 100 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+48.8%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070