NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 320.00
$ 246.99 significantly less expensive
$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points
13092 points
259% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS
305 FPS
233 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS
156 FPS
97 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS
227 FPS
181 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
124 FPS
77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points
6174.82 points
1004% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points
188870 points
276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points
181089 points
263% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
2325 MHz
54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz
2512 MHz
49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s
672 GB/s
162% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
66% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s
201 Gigapixels/s
86% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s
482.3 Gigatexels/s
138% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920
6144
220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
192
60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586
27th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 5070 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5070 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5070 over the GeForce GTX 1070.

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