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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1070
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB with 1024 shaders against the 6 years and 1 month older GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB that utilizes 15 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
22.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
43.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 over RX 6500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070
  • Performs better (up to 23%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 33% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 30 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 78% higher memory bandwidth: 256.3 vs 143.9 GB/s
  • Has 88% more shading units (1920 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500 XT
vs
GTX 1070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
22
88
50
41
25
The Witcher 3
60
50
28
14
83
68
47
25
Counter-Strike 2
95
67
44
18
135
95
68
32
Far Cry 6
64
54
40
16
73
64
47
24
Hogwarts Legacy
36
28
21
12
45
38
29
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
54
42
33
18
54
49
33
22
Ghost of Tsushima
39
29
21
10
43
31
24
13
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
18
-
45
44
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
70
61
36
19
79
73
48
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 72
1080p Ultra 45 57
1440p Ultra 30 40
4K Ultra 15 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6500 XT
4763
GTX 1070 +23%
5858
Time Spy 4942 6091
Solar Bay 20010 16030
Port Royal 368 1283
Fire Strike 15575 18705
Wild Life Extreme 8990 12186
Night Raid 65355 72459
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500 XT
53081
GTX 1070 +1%
53429
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 142.3 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 65.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 3.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 195.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 5161.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6500 XT
2030
GTX 1070 +75%
3551

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500 XT
9617
GTX 1070 +40%
13511
G2D Mark 817 848
DirectX 11 90 FPS 99 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 4296 Ops/s 6123 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3351 & 53848 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500 XT
424.41
GTX 1070 +31%
556.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 119 & 1387 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6500 XT
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📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Geekbench 6 OpenCL53862
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6500 XT +24%
10359
GTX 1070
8330
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500 XT +55%
12861
GTX 1070
8293
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500 XT +27%
7842
GTX 1070
6176
Image Classification (SP) 3867 2295
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 4955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 10587
Face Detection (HP) 14844 8747
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 51263
Text Classification (SP) 1986 1461
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 2342
Object Detection (SP) 4251 2960
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 15275
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 104907
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce GTX 1070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 19, 2022 January 10, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Navi 24 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 76th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 15
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500 XT
5.8 TFLOPS
GTX 1070 +12%
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 107 W 150 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 16 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2248 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
GTX 1070 +78%
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1070:
    - There's a version with GDDR5X memory.

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Total votes: 12

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