NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 429.99 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

14445 points

296% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

292 FPS

220 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

213 FPS

154 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

260 FPS

214 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

124 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

2747.99 points

391% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

224476 points

1093% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

176249 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

177326 points

255% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1890 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2310 MHz

37% 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

576 GB/s

124% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

123% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

174% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

265% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

265% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

5120

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

320

166% 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

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 May

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 6950 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly 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 6950 XT also has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 6950 XT at 335 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.