NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 339.00 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

11265 points

209% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

231 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

167 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

204 FPS

157 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

97 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

68 FPS

231 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

80 FPS

85 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

52 FPS

77 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

19436 points

221% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

2414.65 points

332% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

150488 points

700% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

157812 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

100571 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

200077 points

964% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

154801 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

157877 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2015 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2250 MHz

33% 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

100% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

167% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

220% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

220% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

4608

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

288

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

33rd 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 XT benchmarks

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

The Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 XT 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 Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 XT over the GeForce GTX 1070.