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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon RX 5600 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1070
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB with 2304 shaders against the 4 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
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
13.0
(Bad)
Value Index
43.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 over RX 5600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Performs better (up to 19%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 46 vs 40 FPS
  • Achieves 25% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (66K vs 53K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5600 XT
vs
GTX 1070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
110
61
48
28
88
50
41
25
The Witcher 3
94
75
48
28
83
68
47
25
Counter-Strike 2
154
108
75
36
135
95
68
32
Far Cry 6
89
76
54
29
73
64
47
24
Hogwarts Legacy
56
44
34
15
45
38
29
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
67
43
28
54
49
33
22
Ghost of Tsushima
60
48
32
15
43
31
24
13
Cyberpunk 2077
57
49
25
12
45
44
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
101
88
56
31
79
73
48
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 72
1080p Ultra 68 57
1440p Ultra 46 40
4K Ultra 25 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 5600 XT +19%
6991
GTX 1070
5858
Time Spy 7631 6091
Solar Bay - 16030
Port Royal - 1283
Fire Strike 22323 18705
Wild Life Extreme 14672 12186
Night Raid 86634 72459
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5600 XT +25%
66629
GTX 1070
53429
Background Blur 123.2 img/sec 142.3 img/sec
Face Detection 71.4 img/sec 65.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.85 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.1 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.48 Gpixels/sec 3.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 253.9 Gpixels/sec 195.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7670.6 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 5600 XT
2988
GTX 1070 +19%
3551

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5600 XT
13384
GTX 1070 +1%
13511
G2D Mark 871 848
DirectX 11 95 FPS 99 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 6184 Ops/s 6123 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4842 & 53848 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5600 XT +11%
618.03
GTX 1070
556.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 281 & 1387 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 5600 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL70675
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Steel Nomad Light7074
Add View all (2)
GeForce GTX 1070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Geekbench 6 OpenCL53862
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Cinebench 20243551
Add View all (2)

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 5600 XT +50%
12529
GTX 1070
8330
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5600 XT +76%
14594
GTX 1070
8293
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5600 XT +53%
9434
GTX 1070
6176
Image Classification (SP) 5459 2295
Image Segmentation (HP) 6448 4955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15013 10587
Face Detection (HP) 17318 8747
Pose Estimation (Q) 62592 51263
Text Classification (SP) 1533 1461
Machine Translation (HP) 3771 2342
Object Detection (SP) 5601 2960
Depth Estimation (Q) 22988 15275
Style Transfer (SP) 120386 104907
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce GTX 1070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 21, 2020 January 10, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Navi 10 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (70th and 76th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1130 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 2304 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 15
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 225 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5600 XT +11%
7.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1070
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 150 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 16 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5600 XT +12%
288 GB/s
GTX 1070
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No 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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