AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 116.98 slightly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7232 points

12174 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

148 FPS

289 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

107 FPS

141 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

206 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

114 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

246 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

140 FPS

Battlefield 2042 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

86 FPS

117 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Battlefield 2042 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

46 FPS

66 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

60 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

59 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

226 FPS

144 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

74 FPS

95 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

61 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS

47 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

79 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Sons Of The Forest FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

75 FPS

86 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Sons Of The Forest FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

51 FPS

93 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

55 FPS

118 FPS

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

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

232% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

5402.96 points

256% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

168368 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

158623 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

2190 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

2430 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

Identical

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

30% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

163% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

7168

180% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

224

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 597

31st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the Radeon RX 6700 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 230 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the Radeon RX 6700 XT.