NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M 6 GB, 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

3644 points

13% slightly better overall score

3199 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

66 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

50 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

29 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

6119 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

673.32 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

51426 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

40406 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

55712 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

51663 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1035 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1265 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

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

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

33% slightly higher pixel rate

80.96 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

182.16 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

5.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2304

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

147th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2020 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 5600M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5600M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 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 GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1070 and the Radeon RX 5600M 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon RX 5600M.