AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile Comparison

The AMD Radeon RX 560 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile represent two vastly different eras of GPU design, separated by process technology, architectural philosophy, and performance class. The database records show a decisive advantage for the NVIDIA part in every measured compute workload, yet the AMD card still holds relevance in specific legacy scenarios due to its distinct interface and feature set. This analysis draws exclusively from recorded benchmark data, architectural specifications, and comparative metrics to establish where each product stands.

Where Each One Wins

The recorded head-to-head benchmark results show a total of two comparisons, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile wins both. This gives NVIDIA a 2-0 record in direct matchups, while the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT has zero wins. The most significant margin appears in the Geekbench OpenCL test, where the RTX 5070 Mobile scores 122238 against the RX 560 XT's 31387, a delta of -74.3% for the AMD part. In Geekbench Vulkan, the NVIDIA card scores 116960 versus 36879, a delta of -68.5%. These are not marginal differences; they represent a fundamental performance gulf that no configuration or driver setting can reasonably bridge.

However, the AMD card does not lose every contest when viewed through the broader lens of benchmark distribution. Its average benchmark score across all recorded tests is 34133, which places it in the 79th percentile of all GPUs. The RTX 5070 Mobile, despite its massive raw compute advantage, holds a 75th percentile ranking with an average score of 29928. This apparent inversion occurs because the NVIDIA card's average is dragged down by a series of Passmark tests that score very low, particularly Passmark DirectX 10 at 129, DirectX 12 at 93, and DirectX 9 at 214. The AMD card has no recorded Passmark results in the database, so its average relies entirely on the two Geekbench scores. This means the RX 560 XT wins the percentile comparison, not because it is faster, but because its recorded benchmark portfolio is narrower and uniformly high.

In terms of use cases, the RTX 5070 Mobile wins every scenario where raw compute throughput matters: OpenCL workloads, Vulkan rendering, and any task that leverages its 4608 shading units. The RX 560 XT, with 1792 shading units, cannot compete in these areas. Where the AMD card holds a theoretical advantage is in its 256-bit memory bus, which provides 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth across 4 GB of GDDR5. The RTX 5070 Mobile uses a 128-bit bus with 8 GB of GDDR7, achieving 384.0 GB/s. The AMD card's wider bus could favor certain memory-latency-sensitive workloads, but no benchmark in the database confirms this. The data only shows that the NVIDIA part wins all recorded tests.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two GPUs is generational. The AMD Radeon RX 560 XT uses the Ellesmere chip based on GCN 4.0 architecture, belonging to the Polaris (RX 500) generation. It is fabricated on a 14 nm process at GlobalFoundries, with 5700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 24.6 million per square millimeter. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile uses the GB206 chip based on Blackwell 2.0 architecture, part of the GeForce 50 Mobile generation. It is built on a 5 nm process at TSMC, packing 21900 million transistors into a 181 mm² die, achieving a transistor density of 121.0 million per square millimeter. This density difference is roughly 4.9 times higher for the NVIDIA part, explaining how it fits nearly four times the transistor count into a smaller physical area.

Clock behavior also diverges significantly. The RX 560 XT has a base clock of 1074 MHz and a boost clock of 1226 MHz, while the RTX 5070 Mobile starts at a lower 907 MHz base but boosts to 1425 MHz. The NVIDIA card's higher boost clock, combined with its vastly larger shading unit count, produces the observed performance advantage. Memory clocks differ as well: the AMD card runs its GDDR5 at 1750 MHz with 7 Gbps effective, while the NVIDIA card runs GDDR7 at 1500 MHz with 24 Gbps effective. The effective data rate is over three times higher on the RTX 5070 Mobile, which compensates for its narrower bus.

Feature support marks another major divergence. The RTX 5070 Mobile includes 36 ray tracing cores and 144 tensor cores, neither of which exists on the RX 560 XT. The AMD card only has shading units, TMUs, and ROPs. The NVIDIA part also supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4, whereas the AMD card supports DirectX 12 (12_0) and Vulkan 1.3. Both support OpenGL 4.6. The RTX 5070 Mobile connects via PCIe 5.0 x16, while the RX 560 XT uses PCIe 3.0 x16. Power delivery also differs: the AMD card has a dual-slot design with a 150 W TDP and a single 6-pin power connector, requiring a 450 W suggested PSU. The RTX 5070 Mobile is an integrated graphics processor (IGP) with a 50 W TDP, no power connectors, and no suggested PSU. It is designed for portable devices, whereas the RX 560 XT is a discrete card measuring 241 mm (9.5 inches) in length with 1x HDMI 2.0b and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a outputs. The NVIDIA card's display outputs are labeled "Portable Device Dependent," meaning they vary by laptop implementation.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The Geekbench OpenCL test provides the clearest illustration of the performance chasm. The RTX 5070 Mobile scores 122238, which is 3.9 times higher than the RX 560 XT's 31387. The delta of -74.3% means the AMD card performs at only about 25.7% of the NVIDIA card's level in this workload. This result aligns with the raw specification differences: the RTX 5070 Mobile has 4608 shading units versus 1792, 144 TMUs versus 112, 48 ROPs versus 32, and 13.13 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput versus 4.394 TFLOPS. The NVIDIA card also holds a 384.0 GB/s bandwidth advantage over 224.0 GB/s.

Geekbench Vulkan shows a slightly narrower but still decisive margin. The RTX 5070 Mobile scores 116960 against 36879, a delta of -68.5%. This means the AMD card operates at roughly 31.5% of the NVIDIA card's Vulkan performance. Interestingly, the RX 560 XT performs better in Vulkan relative to its OpenCL score: it achieves 36879 in Vulkan versus 31387 in OpenCL, a 17.5% improvement. The RTX 5070 Mobile, by contrast, scores lower in Vulkan (116960) than in OpenCL (122238), a 4.3% drop. This suggests the AMD architecture handles Vulkan more efficiently relative to its own baseline, but the absolute gap remains enormous.

The RTX 5070 Mobile also has Passmark results that the RX 560 XT lacks entirely. These include Passmark G3D at 20355, Passmark GPU Compute at 8279, and a series of DirectX tests: DirectX 9 at 214, DirectX 10 at 129, DirectX 11 at 192, and DirectX 12 at 93. The 2D test scores 896. These numbers lower the NVIDIA card's average to 29928, which explains its 75th percentile ranking despite its dominant Geekbench scores. The RX 560 XT's average of 34133 comes from only two scores, both above 31K, which pushes it to the 79th percentile. This is a statistical artifact of incomplete benchmark coverage, not a statement of competitive performance.

The Verdict

The database is unambiguous: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile wins every recorded head-to-head benchmark against the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT. In OpenCL, it leads by 74.3%; in Vulkan, by 68.5%. Any workload that relies on GPGPU compute, ray tracing, or tensor operations belongs to the NVIDIA card, which also has 36 RT cores and 144 tensor cores that the AMD part does not possess. The RTX 5070 Mobile also delivers 13.13 TFLOPS of FP32 and FP16 performance, nearly three times the RX 560 XT's 4.394 TFLOPS. Its 8 GB of GDDR7 memory doubles the AMD card's 4 GB capacity, and its 384.0 GB/s bandwidth exceeds 224.0 GB/s by 71.4%.

The AMD Radeon RX 560 XT should only be selected by users who specifically need a discrete PCIe 3.0 x16 card with a dual-slot form factor and standard display outputs (HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a). It is an end-of-life product from 2019, built on 14 nm GCN 4.0, with no ray tracing or tensor hardware. Its 150 W TDP and 450 W suggested PSU requirements make it a power-hungry option compared to the 50 W IGP design of the RTX 5070 Mobile. For anyone building a new system, the data offers no reason to choose the AMD card on performance grounds. For legacy systems or specific compatibility requirements, the RX 560 XT remains a functional option, but it ranks 4 percentile points higher than the RTX 5070 Mobile only because its recorded benchmark set is smaller and uniformly strong.

The RTX 5070 Mobile is the clear choice for portable devices, given its IGP form factor, 50 W TDP, and PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its nearest rivals in the database include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (average score 29945, delta -0.1%), the RTX 2080 Ti (29783, +0.5%), the AMD Radeon RX 6800 (30095, -0.6%), and the RX 6700 (30433, -1.7%). This places the RTX 5070 Mobile in the same tier as desktop cards from previous generations, despite being a mobile part. The RX 560 XT's nearest rivals are the NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB (34154, -0.1%), RTX A1000 (34207, -0.2%), AMD Radeon RX 480 (33997, +0.4%), and AMD Radeon HD 7950 (33951, +0.5%). These deltas are all within 0.5%, indicating the RX 560 XT sits in a tightly clustered performance band that is completely outclassed by the RTX 5070 Mobile's tier.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins in Geekbench OpenCL performance?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile scores 122238 versus 31387 for the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT, a 74.3% advantage for NVIDIA.

Q: Does the AMD Radeon RX 560 XT have any ray tracing cores?

A: No. The database lists no RT cores for the RX 560 XT, while the RTX 5070 Mobile has 36 RT cores and 144 tensor cores.

Q: What is the memory configuration difference between the two cards?

A: The RX 560 XT has 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus with 224.0 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 5070 Mobile has 8 GB of GDDR7 on a 128-bit bus with 384.0 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Why does the AMD card have a higher percentile ranking despite losing all benchmarks?

A: The RX 560 XT ranks in the 79th percentile with an average benchmark score of 34133, while the RTX 5070 Mobile ranks in the 75th percentile with 29928. This is because the RTX 5070 Mobile has additional Passmark scores (including DirectX 9 at 214, DirectX 10 at 129, and DirectX 12 at 93) that lower its average, while the AMD card only has two Geekbench scores.

Q: What is the power consumption and form factor difference?

A: The RX 560 XT is a dual-slot discrete card with a 150 W TDP, a single 6-pin power connector, and a suggested 450 W PSU. The RTX 5070 Mobile is an IGP with a 50 W TDP, no power connectors, and no suggested PSU.

Q: Which card supports newer graphics APIs?

A: The RTX 5070 Mobile supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4. The RX 560 XT supports DirectX 12 (12_0) and Vulkan 1.3. Both support OpenGL 4.6.