NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 149.39

$ 170.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

341% significantly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

229% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

329% significantly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

21032 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19493 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

23476 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20226 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23100 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

1275 MHz

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

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

427% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

147% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

147% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

87% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 560 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the Radeon RX 560.