NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5700

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 209.99 significantly less expensive

$ 529.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

4478 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

91 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

67 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

79 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

38 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

8496 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

877.69 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

57679 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

58932 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51919 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

82201 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

69383 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

73003 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1465 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1725 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

448 GB/s

74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

180 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

110.4 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

248.4 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

7.95 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

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

113th 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 5700 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 in our tests.

Our database shows that 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5700 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 at 180 W. 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 Radeon RX 5700 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.