AMD Radeon Pro 570X vs AMD Radeon RX 7700S Comparison

The Verdict

The benchmark data presents a clear hierarchy between these two AMD mobile graphics parts. The AMD Radeon RX 7700S is decisively the stronger performer, winning both head-to-head tests with substantial margins. Its average benchmark score of 33,849 places it in the 78th percentile of all GPUs, while the AMD Radeon Pro 570X, with an average score of 32,176, sits in the 76th percentile. The RX 7700S leads by 128.2% in Geekbench OpenCL and by 26.1% in Geekbench Vulkan. Any workload that can leverage modern compute or rendering APIs will favor the RX 7700S overwhelmingly.

The Radeon Pro 570X is an end-of-life part from the GCN 4.0 era, built on a 14 nm process. Its only benchmark win, if it can be called that, is in Geekbench Metal, where it scores 40,066 — a test the RX 7700S does not appear in. For users locked into Apple's Metal API on older Mac systems, the Pro 570X remains the only option here. For everyone else, the RX 7700S is the rational choice on raw performance, API support, and architectural longevity. The data shows no scenario outside of a Metal-specific ecosystem where the Pro 570X is preferable.

Where Each One Wins

AMD Radeon RX 7700S — This is the compute and graphics winner across every shared benchmark. In Geekbench OpenCL, it scores 62,983 versus 27,604 for the Pro 570X, a 128.2% advantage. In Geekbench Vulkan, it scores 36,380 versus 28,859, a 26.1% lead. The RX 7700S also supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4, compared to the Pro 570X's DirectX 12 (12_0) and Vulkan 1.3. For gaming, ray tracing, or modern compute workloads, the RX 7700S is the only part with the feature set and throughput to matter.

AMD Radeon Pro 570X — Its sole distinguishing benchmark is Geekbench Metal, where it scores 40,066. This test has no corresponding entry for the RX 7700S, which does not report a Metal score. The Pro 570X's architecture, GCN 4.0, is older but its 256-bit memory bus and 4 GB of GDDR5 provide 217.0 GB/s of bandwidth. That bandwidth figure, while lower than the RX 7700S's 288.0 GB/s, is still respectable for its era. The Pro 570X is also a 150 W part versus the RX 7700S's 100 W TDP, meaning it draws more power for far less performance — a poor trade by any measure.

Architecture Differences

The RX 7700S is built on TSMC's 6 nm process with 13,300 million transistors on a 204 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 65.2 million per mm². The Pro 570X uses GlobalFoundries' 14 nm process with 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die, at 24.6 million per mm². The RX 7700S packs more than twice the transistors into a smaller die, a direct consequence of the newer node and RDNA 3.0 architecture.

Core counts differ sharply. The RX 7700S has 2,048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, 64 ROPs, and 32 ray tracing cores. The Pro 570X has 1,792 shading units, 112 TMUs, and 32 ROPs, with no ray tracing cores. The RX 7700S also offers FP16 performance of 40.96 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio, while the Pro 570X manages only 3.960 TFLOPS at 1:1 — the former is designed for mixed-precision workloads, the latter is not.

Memory configurations reflect their generations. The RX 7700S uses 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus at 288.0 GB/s, with effective memory speed of 18 Gbps. The Pro 570X uses 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus at 217.0 GB/s, with effective speed of 6.8 Gbps. Despite the narrower bus, the RX 7700S achieves higher bandwidth thanks to faster memory technology. The RX 7700S also runs on PCIe 4.0 x16, while the Pro 570X is limited to PCIe 3.0 x16.

Clock speeds reinforce the gap. The RX 7700S has a base clock of 1500 MHz, a game clock of 2200 MHz, and a boost clock of 2500 MHz. The Pro 570X runs at 1000 MHz base and 1105 MHz boost. Pixel rate tells the story: 160.0 GPixel/s for the RX 7700S versus 35.36 GPixel/s for the Pro 570X. Texture rate is 320.0 GTexel/s versus 123.8 GTexel/s. FP32 compute is 20.48 TFLOPS versus 3.960 TFLOPS. Every throughput metric favors the RX 7700S by a factor of four to five.

The RX 7700S is from the Navi Mobile (RX 7000M) generation, released in January 2023, and remains in active production. The Pro 570X is from the Radeon Pro Mac (500X Series) generation, released in March 2019, and is end-of-life. The RX 7700S has no successor listed; the Pro 570X has no predecessor or successor listed. Both are IGP slot-width parts with no power connectors, and both have display outputs described as "Portable Device Dependent."

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has higher raw compute performance?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 7700S delivers 20.48 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, compared to 3.960 TFLOPS for the AMD Radeon Pro 570X. That is over five times the compute throughput.

Q: Does the RX 7700S support ray tracing?

A: Yes. The RX 7700S has 32 dedicated ray tracing cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2). The Pro 570X has no ray tracing cores and only supports DirectX 12 (12_0).

Q: Which GPU has more memory bandwidth?

A: The RX 7700S has 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth from 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus. The Pro 570X has 217.0 GB/s from 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus. Despite the narrower bus, the RX 7700S wins.

Q: How do they compare in Vulkan performance?

A: In the Geekbench Vulkan test, the RX 7700S scores 36,380 versus 28,859 for the Pro 570X, a 26.1% advantage for the RX 7700S.

Q: Is the Pro 570X better for any specific API?

A: The Pro 570X scores 40,066 in Geekbench Metal, a benchmark the RX 7700S does not have a result for. This suggests the Pro 570X may be relevant in Metal-only environments, but no direct comparison exists in the data.

Q: What is the power consumption difference?

A: The RX 7700S has a TDP of 100 W, while the Pro 570X has a TDP of 150 W. The RX 7700S uses less power while delivering far higher performance.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The two shared benchmarks show a dominant pattern. In Geekbench OpenCL, the RX 7700S scores 62,983 against the Pro 570X's 27,604. That is a delta of 128.2%, meaning the RX 7700S more than doubles the Pro 570X's score. This test exercises general-purpose compute across the GPU's shading units, and the RX 7700S's 2,048 shaders at higher clocks, on a 6 nm process, simply overwhelm the Pro 570X's 1,792 shaders at much lower clock speeds. The FP32 throughput difference — 20.48 TFLOPS versus 3.960 TFLOPS — is the structural reason for this result.

In Geekbench Vulkan, the RX 7700S scores 36,380 versus 28,859 for the Pro 570X, a 26.1% lead. This is a smaller margin than OpenCL, but still a clear win. The Vulkan test is more sensitive to driver overhead and API efficiency, and the RX 7700S's newer RDNA 3.0 architecture with Vulkan 1.4 support appears to extract more performance per compute unit than the Pro 570X's GCN 4.0 with Vulkan 1.3. Even with a narrower memory bus, the RX 7700S maintains a solid lead.

The Pro 570X's only benchmark result without an RX 7700S counterpart is Geekbench Metal, where it scores 40,066. This score is notable because it exceeds the Pro 570X's own Vulkan score of 28,859 by 38.8%, suggesting the Pro 570X's optimizations lean toward Apple's Metal API. However, without an RX 7700S Metal result, this cannot be used for comparison. The wins tally stands at 2 for the RX 7700S and 0 for the Pro 570X across all head-to-head tests.

Looking at nearest rivals adds context. The RX 7700S's average score of 33,849 sits within 0.7% of the NVIDIA RTX A5000 (33,622) and 0.5% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB (33,694). It trails the AMD Radeon RX 480 (33,997) by 0.4% and the AMD Radeon HD 7950 (33,951) by 0.3% — all effectively within noise. The Pro 570X's average of 32,176 is 0.7% behind the AMD FirePro S10000 (32,388), 0.9% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE (32,456), and 1.1% behind the AMD FirePro S9300 X2 (32,540). It leads the Intel Arc Pro A30M (31,894) by 0.9%. These rival comparisons show the RX 7700S competing with mid-range desktop parts from several generations, while the Pro 570X sits in a similar tier but with fewer modern features.

The architectural gulf is the final word. The RX 7700S is a 6 nm part with 13,300 million transistors, 32 ray tracing cores, and 8 GB of GDDR6. The Pro 570X is a 14 nm part with 5,700 million transistors, no ray tracing, and 4 GB of GDDR5. The RX 7700S was released in January 2023 and is still in production; the Pro 570X was released in March 2019 and is end-of-life. Every metric, from pixel rate to FP16 throughput, favors the RX 7700S by margins that range from 2.6x to 5.2x. The data does not support any scenario where the Pro 570X is the better purchase, outside of a specific Metal-based application ecosystem.