NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 219.99 significantly less expensive

$ 539.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

18321 points

402% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

374 FPS

301 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

261 FPS

203 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

344 FPS

298 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

151 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4804 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

2797.04 points

400% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

168118 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

186034 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2245 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

576 GB/s

124% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

73% significantly lower TDP

260 W

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

46 TFLOPS

611% significantly better floating point performance

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

12th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 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

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 7900 GRE comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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 7900 GRE at 260 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 7900 GRE is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.