NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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

35 %

72 %

105% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

69 FPS

145 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

109 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

44 FPS

129 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

46 FPS

62 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6046

12922

113% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

566.05

1307.34

130% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750

102988

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125

70085

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40762

96573

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51403

115164

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2321 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2581 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

53% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

53% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

104% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% 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

73rd of 549

23rd of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

June 2016

March 2021

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 6700 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.