The GeForce RTX 3070 and Radeon RX 6700 XT were both hailed as the best graphic cards to have in 2021, according to TechRadar's report in Mar. 26.
The GPUs were introduced to target the high-end market, launching at around $500 price point, but the prolonging GPU shortages had jacked up the prices, thanks to the increasing demand brought by Ethereum mining.
Putting the best GPUs side by side to compare their performance, features, efficiency, the price will finally end the debate about the ultimate must-have GPU to date.
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT in a Nutshell
On Mar. 17, PCGamer benchmarked that the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT boasts high framerates at 1080p and 1440p, as well as its effective cooler and incredible clock speeds.
The Radeon RX 6700 XT sports the latest RDNA 2 architecture along with the Navi 22 GPU at its core, which allowed the GPU to have six 32-bit memory interfaces instead of eight, ultimately reducing bandwidth by 25%.
To compensate for reducing core counts, AMD fitted the Radeon RX 6700 XT with a Game Clock rated at 2424MHz with a maximum boost clock of 2581MHz.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Analysis
On the other hand, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 is powered by the Ampere GA104 GPU with 5,888 CUDA cores spread across 46 Streaming Multiprocessors, making it a much smaller chip yet as powerful, if not better, than its predecessors.
According to TechRadar's review on Mar. 17, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 exhibits a reasonable power consumption level compared to its peers at the Ampere lineup.
At 4K, the GeForce RTX 3070 provided an incredibly smooth performance and gameplay and enabled high-framerate performance at lower resolutions.
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Nvidia versus AMD: A Side by Side Comparison
On Apr. 2, Tom's Hardware had put both the GeForce RTX 3070 and Radeon RX 6700 XT to the test in terms of features, performance, and efficiency to see which of the two stands better than the other.
In terms of gaming performance, Nvidia won the round by a thread, thanks to its higher frame rates.
Unlike the RTX 3070, the RX 6700 XT tends to slow down at 1440p and 4k and gets worse when used at games supporting ray tracing, despite the AMD GPU having 50 percent more VRAM.
Nvidia earned another win with its Ampere architecture, which is regarded as more advanced than AMD's RDNA2 architecture, but the RTX 3070's $1,400 price tag compared to RX 6700 XT's $1,000 could take users aback.
Additionally, Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) does not have any direct competition, and its G-Sync and FreeSync provide tear-free gaming and adaptive refresh rates.
Meanwhile, both GPUs did well in terms of power and efficiency, adding that AMD may be better in processing specific workloads when it comes to power consumption.
The bottom line is, the GPUs are almost evenly matched with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 in a slight lead.
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Written by Lee Mercado
