AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB with 2304 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months older GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB that utilizes 19 pipelines and 2432 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
21.1
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 Ti over RX 5600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
110
61
48
28
97
56
45
29
The Witcher 3
94
75
48
28
95
77
53
27
Counter-Strike 2
154
108
75
36
149
104
78
37
Far Cry 6
89
76
54
29
78
70
52
25
Hogwarts Legacy
56
44
34
15
54
42
31
16
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
67
43
28
63
52
37
23
Ghost of Tsushima
60
48
32
15
49
37
26
13
Cyberpunk 2077
57
49
25
12
51
48
26
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
101
88
56
31
87
77
53
28
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 80
1080p Ultra 68 63
1440p Ultra 46 45
4K Ultra 25 23
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
6991
Time Spy 7631 6842
Solar Bay - 18306
Port Royal - 1554
Fire Strike 22323 20113
Wild Life Extreme 14672 13255
Night Raid 86634 78888
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 +15%
66629
57735
Background Blur 123.2 img/sec 149.2 img/sec
Face Detection 71.4 img/sec 67.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.85 Gpixels/sec 2.36 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.1 Gpixels/sec 3.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.48 Gpixels/sec 4.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 253.9 Gpixels/sec 209.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7670.6 FPS 6584.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
2988
3806

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13384
14668
G2D Mark 871 876
DirectX 11 95 FPS 106 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 52 FPS
GPU Compute 6184 Ops/s 7166 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4842 & 13017 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
618.03
626.69
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 281 & 393 samples

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
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
No benchmark results yet

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 +40%
12529
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5600 XT +66%
14594
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5600 XT +44%
9434
Image Classification (SP) 5459 3473
Image Segmentation (HP) 6448 5149
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15013 9722
Face Detection (HP) 17318 9306
Pose Estimation (Q) 62592 34870
Text Classification (SP) 1533 2139
Machine Translation (HP) 3771 2424
Object Detection (SP) 5601 4566
Depth Estimation (Q) 22988 14316
Style Transfer (SP) 120386 88984
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 21, 2020 November 2, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $279 -
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 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (70th and 74th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1130 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 2304 2432
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 152
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 19
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 256 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
7.2 TFLOPS
8.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 180 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
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

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