AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 519.00
$ 47.99 slightly less expensive
$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points
13092 points
36% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS
305 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS
156 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS
227 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS
124 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points
207% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points
6174.82 points
225% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points
188870 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points
181089 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz
2325 MHz
28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz
2512 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
672 GB/s
31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
Identical
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s
0.55% slightly higher pixel rate
201 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s
4% slightly higher texture rate
482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
6144
60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240
25% slightly more texture mapping units
192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
20% slightly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586
28th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6800 vs GeForce RTX 5070 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5070 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6800 over the GeForce RTX 5070.

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