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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 2070

Radeon RX 5700 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 2070
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070
TU106

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT with 2560 shaders against the 8 months older GeForce RTX 2070 that utilizes 36 pipelines and 2304 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
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
75.7
(Good)
Value Index
16.7
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2070 over RX 5700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 31% higher maximum theoretical performance (9.8 vs 7.5 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070
  • Ray-tracing support with 36 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 20% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 81K)
  • Features 288 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5700 XT
vs
RTX 2070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
131
73
57
35
109
70
56
40
The Witcher 3
113
94
66
36
124
100
73
38
Counter-Strike 2
185
128
91
47
181
132
96
48
Far Cry 6
102
86
64
36
92
83
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
67
56
39
18
65
56
41
19
CoD: Modern Warfare III
90
85
55
35
79
74
50
34
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
39
21
64
50
36
20
Cyberpunk 2077
69
62
33
15
67
63
35
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
121
107
72
35
106
98
68
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 106 99
1080p Ultra 83 81
1440p Ultra 57 58
4K Ultra 31 32
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 5700 XT +1%
8566
RTX 2070
8492
Time Spy 9421 9074
Solar Bay - 39675
Port Royal - 5194
Fire Strike 27551 23208
Wild Life Extreme 18403 18257
Night Raid 103057 92357
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5700 XT
81739
RTX 2070 +20%
97923
Background Blur 148 img/sec 200 img/sec
Face Detection 89.5 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.52 Gpixels/sec 3.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.98 Gpixels/sec 4.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.11 Gpixels/sec 4.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.75 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 295.8 Gpixels/sec 452 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10480.7 FPS 11141.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 5700 XT
n/a
RTX 2070
5899

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5700 XT
16046
RTX 2070
16057
G2D Mark 920 816
DirectX 11 115 FPS 130 FPS
DirectX 12 63 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 7522 Ops/s 6376 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 18159 & 16971 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5700 XT
976.82
RTX 2070 +125%
2196.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 956 & 932 samples
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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 5700 XT +18%
14920
RTX 2070
12633
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5700 XT
16852
RTX 2070 +21%
20355
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5700 XT +32%
11883
RTX 2070
8999
Image Classification (SP) 6764 5244
Image Segmentation (HP) 7615 9644
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19081 13716
Face Detection (HP) 20621 21326
Pose Estimation (Q) 73667 57284
Text Classification (SP) 1970 1857
Machine Translation (HP) 2417 2542
Object Detection (SP) 6684 6466
Depth Estimation (Q) 30456 22978
Style Transfer (SP) 147087 111896
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce RTX 2070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 7, 2019 October 17, 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 10 TU106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9600K or above - Intel Core i7 9700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (64th and 63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1605 MHz 1410 MHz
Boost Clock 1905 MHz 1620 MHz
Shading Units 2560 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 36
Tensor Cores No 288
Ray-tracing Cores No 36
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 305 GTexel/s 233 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5700 XT +31%
9.8 TFLOPS
RTX 2070
7.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 225 W 175 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 22.47 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5700 XT
448 GB/s
RTX 2070
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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Total votes: 32

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