AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (2105MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +150%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +167%

16233

GeForce GTX 1070

6067

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +150%

65

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +134%

117

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +118%

168

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +111%

91

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +125%

178

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +94%

194

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +104%

98

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +50%

126

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +14%

170

GeForce GTX 1070

148

Radeon RX 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2016

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

3840

Shading Units

1920

240

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

64

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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