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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

697.32 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

40962 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

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

206th of 597

218th of 597

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 GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 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. Despite this, the RTX A500 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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