NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (2815MHz vs 2475MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +405%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +263%

17853

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

36 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

107W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Navi 24

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

6 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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