AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 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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$ 519.00

$ 22.95 slightly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9578 points

12174 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

289 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

206 FPS

34 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

114 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points

318% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

5402.96 points

184% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

168368 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

158623 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

2190 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

2430 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

20% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

194.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

115% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

7168

86% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

7% slightly more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 597

31st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

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 6800 vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6800 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 GeForce RTX 4070 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 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 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 Radeon RX 6800 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 GeForce RTX 4070 is better than the Radeon RX 6800.