GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and Radeon RX 6950 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
Radeon RX 6950 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP104
Navi
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2018
May 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
2324 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
335 Watt
Texture fill rate
202.0
743.7
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8008 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3