Radeon RX 570 X2 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 evaluation58.59no data
Power efficiency18.07no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGA104Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)no data
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 cores58882048
Core clock speed1500 MHz1120 MHz
Boost clock speed1725 MHz1206 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate317.4154.4
Floating-point processing power20.31 TFLOPS4.94 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs184128
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 3.0 x16
Length242 mm241 mm
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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s268.8 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 2.0b
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 180 Watt

RTX 3070 has a 75% more advanced lithography process.

RX 570 X2, on the other hand, has 22.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 and Radeon RX 570 X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
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