NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 199.00 significantly less expensive

$ 519.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

9568 points

162% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

196 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

143 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

173 FPS

126 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

83 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

16155 points

167% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

1896.07 points

239% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

129800 points

590% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

130322 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

93163 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

176154 points

836% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

130005 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

133046 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1815 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2105 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

512 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

202.1 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

150% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

150% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

3840

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

240

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

41st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2020 November

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 6800 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 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 Radeon RX 6800 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 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 6800 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.