NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Price

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$ 459.00

$ 259.99

$ 199.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4293 points

42% slightly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6804 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

631.34 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434 points

52512 points

0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56994 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61006 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2310 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2815 MHz

67% 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

77% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

107 W

68% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432

137% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

137% 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

119th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 6500 XT 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 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti at 180 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 Ti over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.