NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, 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
10% slightly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS
33 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points
697.32 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points
40962 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz
65% significantly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz
1537 MHz
11% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
166% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s
79% significantly higher pixel rate
49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s
79% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
Identical
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
100% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.

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