Arc 7 A780 vs GeForce RTX 3070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking42not rated
Place by popularity43not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.60no data
Power efficiency18.07no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA104DG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 cores58884096
Core clock speed1500 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1725 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate317.4563.2
Floating-point processing power20.31 TFLOPS18.02 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs184256
Tensor Cores184no data
Ray Tracing Cores46no data

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
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz17.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s559.6 GB/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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 200 Watt

Arc 7 A780 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 10% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 and Arc 7 A780. We've got no test results to judge.


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