AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 76% (2970MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 304W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+652%
48.66 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+400%
30445
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+417%
14633
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Dec 2018
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1660 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2970 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
4096
Shading Units
1920
256
TMUs
120
128
ROPs
64
128
Tensor Cores
-
64
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
380.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
97.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
304W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
GP104
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
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
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
