NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

6% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

59 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

40 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

51 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

385.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

46114 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

2000 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

2400 MHz

74% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

50 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

76.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

155.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

13% slightly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500M in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q over the Radeon RX 6500M.