AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (2815MHz vs 1683MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +12%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

GeForce GTX 1070 +23%

6066

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce GTX 1070 +73%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce GTX 1070 +61%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce GTX 1070 +63%

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce GTX 1070 +59%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce GTX 1070 +51%

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce GTX 1070 +44%

100

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce GTX 1070 +60%

48

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce GTX 1070 +95%

84

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce GTX 1070 +54%

148

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1920

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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