AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
20
123
79
68
45
The Witcher 3
60
46
27
16
141
112
83
46
Counter-Strike 2
96
67
46
19
201
153
112
54
Far Cry 6
65
55
40
19
106
92
76
39
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
20
10
76
63
46
25
COD Modern Warfare 3
51
45
29
19
96
86
60
40
Ghost of Tsushima
37
28
21
10
71
59
44
25
Cyberpunk 2077
36
33
19
n/a
84
72
45
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
69
61
36
18
125
115
83
45
Avg FPS
1080p High60114
1080p Ultra4692
1440p Ultra3069
4K Ultra1538
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4786
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
10202
Time Spy495110479
Solar Bay1997945677
Port Royal3676250
Fire Strike1557726767
Night Raid6528183274
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
53081
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
118499
Background Blur130.3 frames/s170.3 frames/s
Face Detection70.1 frames/s113.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection1.59 Gpix/sec5.59 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection2.21 Gpix/sec7.94 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur2.02 Gpix/sec6.19 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.65 Gpix/sec1.16 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching223 Gpix/sec467 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics7470.5 fps15131.3 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
9578
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
15373
G2D Mark810644
DirectX 1190 fps138 fps
DirectX 1238 fps64 fps
GPU Compute4502 Ops/s6902 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
52.4 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
121.6 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)360.9 fps644.4 fps
Car Chase373.9 fps565.3 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)278.5 fps483.8 fps
T-Rex1305.6 fps2380.5 fps
ALU 21331.2 fps3169.7 fps
Driver Overhead 2259.2 fps246.7 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation1300.53511.5

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 19, 2022 January, 12, 2021
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
Codename Navi 24 GA104 (GN20-E5)
Price 199 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 2310 MHz 780-1215 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2815 MHz 1290-1620 MHz
Shader Units 1024 5120
TMUs 64 160
ROPs 32 80
Execution Units n/a 40
Ray Tracing Cores 16 40
Tensor Cores No 160
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 1024 KB/core 4000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 Gpix/sec 103-130 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTex/s 206-259 GTex/s
FLOPS 5.8 TFLOPS 13.2-16.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 107 W 80-150 W
Process TSMC Samsung
Process tech. 6 nm 8 nm
Transistor Size 107 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor count 5 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor density 46.73 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 2248 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Bus 64 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 MB/s 12000-14000 MB/s
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 8.6
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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