NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon VII

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking75not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money65.93no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameVega 20GN20-E5 GA104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 February 2019 (5 years old)4 January 2021 (3 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data
Current price$160 (0.2x MSRP)no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38405120
Core clock speed1400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1750 MHz1290 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate420.0237.4

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon VII and GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length305 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/s320.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 7 February 2019 4 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 80 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon VII and GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon VII is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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