AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 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

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$ 629.99
$ 566.99
$ 63.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
7% slightly better overall score
13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
305 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
156 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
29 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
227 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
124 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
5256 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
6174.82 points
149% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
188870 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
181089 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
2325 MHz
27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2512 MHz
11% 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

300 W
250 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
43% significantly higher pixel rate
201 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
49% significantly higher texture rate
482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
6144
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
66% significantly more texture mapping units
192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
60% significantly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th 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 August
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 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 5070.

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