NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 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

3523 points

92% significantly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

926 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

1206 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

384 GB/s

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 470 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 470 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 470 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 470 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 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 GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q over the Radeon RX 470.