Radeon RX 7990 XTX vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking32not rated
Place by popularity92not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation52.67no data
Power efficiency14.45no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104Navi 31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores61446144
Core clock speed1575 MHz2500 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz3599 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)290 Watt405 Watt
Texture fill rate339.81,382
Floating-point processing power21.75 TFLOPS88.45 TFLOPS
ROPs96192
TMUs192384
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores4896

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm287 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin3x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth608.3 GB/s1.15 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 290 Watt 405 Watt

RTX 3070 Ti has 39.7% lower power consumption.

RX 7990 XTX, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and Radeon RX 7990 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
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