MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio vs ASRock Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Formula
            MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio
            
                $640
            
        
    
            ASRock Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Formula
            
                $870
            
        
    | 5888 Shaders 8GB GDDR6 1830MHz | 5120 Shaders 16GB GDDR6 2495MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 689.6 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | Peak AI Performance 51.1 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 21.55 TFLOPS | FP32 25.55 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 21.55 TFLOPS | FP16 51.1 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.8-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 3.0-Slots | 
| TDP 220W | TDP 335W | 
| Power Connectors - 2x 8-Pin - - | Power Connectors - 3x 8-Pin - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 143,235 47% | GB5 OpenCL 183,095 60% | 
| GB5 CUDA 158,955 45% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal 180,250 100% | 
| GB5 Vulkan 106,320 52% | GB5 Vulkan 126,460 62% | 
| OCT 2020.1 430 57% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal 325 55% | 
| Peak AI
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                                            689.6 TOPS
                                         
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                                            51.1 TFLOPS
                                         
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                                            21.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            86.2 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            172.4 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            43.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            86.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            51.1 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            21.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            25.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            FP64
                                         
                                            340 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            1.6 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            21.55 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            43.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            86.2 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            21.55 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            43.1 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            344.8 TOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor
                                            
                                         
                                            689.6 TOPS
                                            
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                                            172.4 TOPS
                                            
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                                            344.8 TOPS
                                            
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                                            10.78 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            32.5 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            175.68 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            319.36 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            336.72 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            798.4 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerMSI | ManufacturerASRock | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureAmpere | ArchitectureRDNA 2 | 
| FamilyGeForce 30 | FamilyRadeon RX 6000 | 
| Codename NV174 GA104 Variant GA104-300-A1 | Codename Sienna Cichlid Navi 21 Variant Navi 21 KXTX | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 10/29/2020 | Release Date 5/10/2022 | 
| Foundry Samsung - | Foundry TSMC - | 
| Fabrication Node 8N - | Fabrication Node N7 - | 
| Die Size 393 mm² - | Die Size 520 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 17.4 Billion - | Transistor Count 26.8 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 44.33M/mm² - | Transistor Density 51.56M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 5888 Shaders - | Shading Units 5120 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 184 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 320 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 96 ROPs | Render Output Units 128 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 184 T-Cores | - - | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 46 RT-Cores | Ray-Tracing Cores 80 RT-Cores | 
| Streaming Multiprocessors 46 SMs | - - | 
| - - | Compute Units 80 CUs | 
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| Graphics Processing Clusters 6 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 4 GPCs | 
| - - 1500MHz Base 1830MHz | - - 1925MHz Base 2495MHz | 
| - - | L0 32KB/WGP | 
| L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | L1 - - - 128KB/Array | 
| L2 4MB Shared | L2 4MB Shared | 
| - - - | L3 128MB Shared 1.66TB/s | 
| 8GB GDDR6 - | 16GB GDDR6 - | 
| Bus Width 256Bit | Bus Width 256Bit | 
| Clock 1750MHz Transfer Rate 14GT/s Bandwidth 448GB/s | Clock 2250MHz Transfer Rate 18GT/s Bandwidth 576GB/s | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 220W | TDP 335W | 
| Temp 93°C Max | Temp 110°C Max | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 7680x4320 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 120Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 4 | Multi Monitor Support 4 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | 
| Model NVENC 7 | Model VCN 3.0 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model NVDEC 5 | Model VCN 3.0 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.2 | 
| Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 8.6 - - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K | Shader Model 6.5 - - GFX 10.3 - - - - | 
| - - - 3x Fans | - - - 3x Fans | 
| Power Connectors - - - 2x 8-Pin - - - | Power Connectors - - - 3x 8-Pin - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.8 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | Slots Required 3.0 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | 
| - - - - | Multi GPU Support Supported Type Bridgeless | 
| Height 140 mm (5.51 in) Width 323 mm (12.72 in) Depth 56 mm (2.2 in) | Height 137 mm (5.39 in) Width 332 mm (13.07 in) Depth 61 mm (2.4 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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