AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 90% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1215 MHz
  • 2x more boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1379 MHz
  • 1021x more texture fill rate: 180.2 GTexel/s vs 176.5 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 423
  • Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 48727 vs 39513
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 Jan 2022 vs 27 June 2017
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1215 MHz
Boost clock speed 2815 MHz vs 1379 MHz
Texture fill rate 180.2 GTexel/s vs 176.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 107 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 812 vs 423
Geekbench - OpenCL 48727 vs 39513

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

  • 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9848 vs 9583
  • 20.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4887 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2048 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9848 vs 9583
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4887 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
812
423
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9583
9848
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
48727
39513
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
235
4887
Name AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 812 423
PassMark - G3D Mark 9583 9848
Geekbench - OpenCL 48727 39513
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 235 4887
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 214.123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2293.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 692.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8048
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8048

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 24 GP104
Launch date 19 Jan 2022 27 June 2017
Place in performance rating 216 218
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2815 MHz 1379 MHz
Compute units 16
Core clock speed 2310 MHz 1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 2048
Pixel fill rate 90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 180.2 GTexel/s 176.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 107 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 143.9 GB/s 256.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 8008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready