AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	November 2017
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	2,432
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	1,683 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	40 compute units; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Main figures and photo describe the standard reference card, pictured as MSI's RX 5700 XT 8G.	NVIDIA launch specifications with stock clocks verified in MSI's GTX 1070 Ti GAMING 8G datasheet. The photo shows this MSI partner board; its connectors and dimensions differ from the Founders Edition.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	No dedicated RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS
Base clock
Base clock	Standard edition 1605 MHz base and 1755 MHz game clock; 50th Anniversary edition 1680 MHz base, 1830 MHz game clock and 1980 MHz boost.	1607 MHz
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	256 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Standard edition 14 Gbps GDDR6. AMD's launch table confirms the Anniversary edition's 8 GB GDDR6 but does not publish its bus, bandwidth or board power; those configuration fields are omitted independently.	8 Gbps GDDR5 (NVIDIA); MSI lists 8008 MHz effective speed
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	180 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × dual-link DVI-D; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2 (MSI GAMING 8G)
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	–
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × 6-pin and 1 × 8-pin (MSI GAMING 8G)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	500 W (MSI GAMING 8G)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	279 × 140 × 42 mm and 1075 g (pictured MSI GAMING 8G partner board)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	–