AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

70% significantly better overall score

8298 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

182 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

104 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

146 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

85 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

4023.53 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

124552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

115530 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

101% significantly higher core clock speed

907 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

1425 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

50 W

499% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

321% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

250% significantly higher texture rate

205.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

11% slightly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

122% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586

50th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop benchmarks

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

The Radeon RX 6900 XT has a significantly 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 6900 XT also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 Radeon RX 6900 XT over the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop.