AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon VII 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 945.00

$ 566.99

$ 378.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6138 points

13240 points

115% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

107 FPS

310 FPS

203 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

100 FPS

156 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

229 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

125 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9129 points

73% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5256 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

817.47 points

6174.82 points

655% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92086 points

188870 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

91729 points

181089 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2325 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1750 MHz

2512 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

4096 Bit

2033% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1024 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

672 GB/s

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

115.26 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

432.24 Gigatexels/s

482.3 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

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

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

80th of 597

27th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon VII vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is faster than the Radeon VII in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5070 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 GeForce RTX 5070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon VII 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 5070 over the Radeon VII.