NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 299.99

$ 20.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

34% slightly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

51 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

49159 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

54355 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1670 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1845 MHz

9% slightly 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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

Identical

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

36% slightly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

36% slightly 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

134th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 July

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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 has a slightly 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 5500 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 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, both the GeForce GTX 1070 and the Radeon RX 5500 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the Radeon RX 5500.