NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 GTX 1070 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
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)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070
+12%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5.765 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070
+22%
6078
Radeon RX 6500 XT
4953
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070
+23%
2825
Radeon RX 6500 XT
2280
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1070
+73%
26
Radeon RX 6500 XT
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1070
+61%
50
Radeon RX 6500 XT
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1070
+63%
77
Radeon RX 6500 XT
47
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1070
+59%
43
Radeon RX 6500 XT
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1070
+51%
79
Radeon RX 6500 XT
52
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1070
+44%
100
Radeon RX 6500 XT
69
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1070
+60%
48
Radeon RX 6500 XT
30
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1070
+95%
84
Radeon RX 6500 XT
43
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1070
+54%
148
Radeon RX 6500 XT
96
Graphics Card
Jun 2016
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
2310 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1024
120
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
107W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Navi 24
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
Pascal
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
6 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
