AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark data available in the database covers two synthetic workloads: Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan. In both cases, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti delivers a commanding performance advantage over the AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM. The gap is substantial enough that the two cards operate in entirely different performance tiers, despite both being positioned as mainstream-to-upper-midrange offerings in their respective generations.

In Geekbench OpenCL, the RTX 4070 Ti scores 176,953 points, while the RX 5600 OEM records 62,427 points. That represents a 64.7 percent deficit for the AMD card relative to its rival. In practical terms, the NVIDIA solution processes roughly 2.8 times the workload in the same amount of time, a margin that would be immediately visible in compute-heavy applications such as rendering, video encoding, or scientific simulations.

The Vulkan result is even more lopsided. The RTX 4070 Ti posts 213,808 points, against 53,743 points for the RX 5600 OEM. The delta here is 74.9 percent, meaning the AMD card delivers less than a quarter of the NVIDIA card's Vulkan performance. Vulkan is a lower-level API that often exposes architectural efficiency differences more directly than OpenCL, and the data indicates that the Ada Lovelace architecture handles this workload with far greater throughput per clock.

Looking at the broader database context, the RX 5600 OEM sits at the 87th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 58,085 across its recorded tests. Its nearest rivals include the Intel Arc A570M (58,239 average score, 0.3 percent ahead), the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT (58,392, 0.5 percent ahead), the Intel Arc A580 (57,756, 0.6 percent behind), and the NVIDIA P102-100 (58,528, 0.8 percent ahead). The RX 5600 OEM is thus tightly clustered with a group of midrange and older high-end cards, all within roughly one percent of each other.

The RTX 4070 Ti, by contrast, holds the 84th percentile across all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 44,795. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile (45,152, 0.8 percent ahead), the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT (45,384, 1.3 percent ahead), the NVIDIA RTX A6000 (44,075, 1.6 percent behind), and the Intel Arc A730M (45,592, 1.7 percent ahead). The percentile ranking is slightly lower than the RX 5600 OEM, but that reflects the distribution of all GPUs in the database, which includes many older low-end parts that drag down the comparison pool. The absolute scores tell the real story: the RTX 4070 Ti averages nearly 45,000 points, while the RX 5600 OEM averages nearly 58,000, but the latter figure is buoyed by the inclusion of different test types. The head-to-head tests, which use identical workloads, are the more reliable comparison.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two cards is generational and fundamental. The AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM uses the Navi 10 chip, built on RDNA 1.0 architecture and fabricated on a 7 nm process at TSMC. The RTX 4070 Ti uses the AD104 chip, based on Ada Lovelace architecture and produced on a 5 nm process, also at TSMC. The process node difference alone explains a significant portion of the performance disparity, as the 5 nm node offers higher transistor density and improved power efficiency.

Transistor counts reflect this. The RX 5600 OEM packs 10,300 million transistors into a 251 mm² die, yielding a density of 41.0 million transistors per square millimeter. The RTX 4070 Ti contains 35,800 million transistors on a 294 mm² die, for a density of 121.8 million per square millimeter. That is roughly three times the transistor density, enabling the NVIDIA chip to house far more compute resources in a similar physical footprint.

The compute configuration differs sharply. The RX 5600 OEM has 2,048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operation units. The RTX 4070 Ti has 7,680 shading units, 240 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The NVIDIA card also includes 60 dedicated ray tracing cores and 240 tensor cores, while the AMD card has none of either. This is a critical distinction: the RTX 4070 Ti is designed for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI workloads, whereas the RX 5600 OEM relies on compute shaders for those tasks.

Clock speeds also favor the NVIDIA card. The RX 5600 OEM has a base clock of 1130 MHz, a game clock of 1375 MHz, and a boost clock of 1560 MHz. The RTX 4070 Ti runs at 2310 MHz base and 2610 MHz boost, with no game clock listed. Even accounting for architectural differences, the higher clocks on the NVIDIA part contribute directly to its throughput advantage.

Memory subsystems differ as well. The RX 5600 OEM uses 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, yielding 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX 4070 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X on the same 192-bit bus, but with a much higher memory clock (21 Gbps effective versus 12 Gbps effective), resulting in 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The GDDR6X memory type is faster per pin, and the capacity doubling also matters for modern game textures and large datasets.

The feature sets diverge on API support. The RX 5600 OEM supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The RTX 4070 Ti supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), which includes features like mesh shaders and variable rate shading, along with the same OpenGL and Vulkan versions. The DirectX 12_2 tier is a meaningful upgrade for titles that leverage the latest rendering techniques.

Power delivery requirements also differ. The RX 5600 OEM has a 125 W TDP and uses a single 8-pin power connector, with a suggested 300 W power supply. The RTX 4070 Ti draws 285 W and requires a single 16-pin connector, with a suggested 600 W power supply. The higher power envelope is consistent with the much larger compute and memory resources.

FAQ

Q: Which card wins in Geekbench OpenCL and by how much?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti scores 176,953 points versus 62,427 points for the AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM. The AMD card trails by 64.7 percent.

Q: What about Vulkan performance?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti scores 213,808 points in Geekbench Vulkan, while the RX 5600 OEM scores 53,743 points. The deficit for the AMD card is 74.9 percent.

Q: Does the RX 5600 OEM have any ray tracing hardware?

A: No. The RX 5600 OEM has no dedicated ray tracing cores or tensor cores. The RTX 4070 Ti includes 60 ray tracing cores and 240 tensor cores.

Q: How do their memory capacities and bandwidths compare?

A: The RX 5600 OEM has 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, with 288.0 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 4070 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus, with 504.2 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: What are the process nodes for each card?

A: The RX 5600 OEM uses a 7 nm TSMC process. The RTX 4070 Ti uses a 5 nm TSMC process.

Q: Which card has a higher boost clock?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti boosts to 2610 MHz. The RX 5600 OEM boosts to 1560 MHz.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ across nearly every major specification category. The following list covers only the fields where the database records a difference.

• Process Node: 7 nm (RX 5600 OEM) versus 5 nm (RTX 4070 Ti)
• Transistors: 10,300 million versus 35,800 million
• Die Size: 251 mm² versus 294 mm²
• Transistor Density: 41.0M per mm² versus 121.8M per mm²
• Base Clock: 1130 MHz versus 2310 MHz
• Boost Clock: 1560 MHz versus 2610 MHz
• Game Clock: 1375 MHz (RX 5600 OEM only, none listed for RTX 4070 Ti)
• Memory Clock: 12 Gbps effective versus 21 Gbps effective
• Memory Size: 6 GB versus 12 GB
• Memory Type: GDDR6 versus GDDR6X
• Memory Bus Width: 192 bit on both, no difference here
• Memory Bandwidth: 288.0 GB/s versus 504.2 GB/s
• Shading Units: 2,048 versus 7,680
• Texture Mapping Units: 128 versus 240
• Raster Operation Units: 64 versus 80
• Ray Tracing Cores: None versus 60
• Tensor Cores: None versus 240
• Pixel Rate: 99.84 GPixel/s versus 208.8 GPixel/s
• Texture Rate: 199.7 GTexel/s versus 626.4 GTexel/s
• FP32 Performance: 6.390 TFLOPS versus 40.09 TFLOPS
• FP16 Performance: 12.78 TFLOPS (2:1) versus 40.09 TFLOPS (1:1)
• TDP: 125 W versus 285 W
• Power Connectors: 1x 8-pin versus 1x 16-pin
• Suggested PSU: 300 W versus 600 W
• Display Outputs: 1x HDMI 2.0b plus 3x DisplayPort 1.4a versus 1x HDMI 2.1 plus 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
• DirectX Support: 12 (12_1) versus 12 Ultimate (12_2)
• Release Date: 2020-01-20 versus 2023-01-02
• Dimensions: The RX 5600 OEM has no recorded dimensions, while the RTX 4070 Ti measures 285 mm in length, 112 mm in height, and 42 mm in width
• Launch MSRP: The RTX 4070 Ti had a launch MSRP of 799 USD, while the RX 5600 OEM has no recorded launch MSRP

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4070 Ti wins decisively in every recorded head-to-head benchmark. The two Geekbench tests, OpenCL and Vulkan, both show the NVIDIA card with a massive lead. There are no recorded tests where the RX 5600 OEM comes out ahead. This makes the use-case split straightforward: for any workload that relies on raw compute throughput, the RTX 4070 Ti is the superior choice.

The RX 5600 OEM does hold a niche, however. Its 125 W TDP is less than half of the RTX 4070 Ti's 285 W figure, and it requires only a 300 W power supply versus 600 W. Systems with limited power budgets or smaller power supplies could run the AMD card without upgrades. The RX 5600 OEM also uses a single 8-pin connector, which is more universally compatible with older power supplies than the 16-pin connector on the RTX 4070 Ti.

For gaming, the RTX 4070 Ti's 12 GB of GDDR6X memory at 504.2 GB/s bandwidth is better suited to high-resolution textures and modern game engines. The RX 5600 OEM's 6 GB of GDDR6 at 288.0 GB/s will struggle with the same workloads. The RTX 4070 Ti also has dedicated ray tracing hardware and tensor cores, which are increasingly relevant in games and creative applications. The RX 5600 OEM has neither.

For compute tasks, the FP32 throughput difference is stark: 40.09 TFLOPS versus 6.390 TFLOPS. The RTX 4070 Ti also offers FP16 at the same rate (1:1), while the RX 5600 OEM's FP16 is halved to 12.78 TFLOPS via a 2:1 ratio. Scientific computing, machine learning inference, and rendering all benefit from the NVIDIA card's higher throughput and dedicated tensor cores.

The RTX 4070 Ti also has a more recent release date (January 2023 versus January 2020), which means better driver maturity for newer APIs and features like DirectX 12 Ultimate. The RX 5600 OEM is end-of-life, and its predecessor is Vega, with Navi II as its successor. The RTX 4070 Ti's predecessor is GeForce 30, and its successor is GeForce 50, indicating it sits in a more recent product cycle.

In summary, the RTX 4070 Ti is the clear winner for performance, features, and memory capacity. The RX 5600 OEM's only advantages are lower power draw, a simpler power connector, and a smaller physical footprint (though its dimensions are not recorded). For users with strict power or space constraints, the RX 5600 OEM remains a viable option, but it cannot compete on raw performance. The database shows no single metric where the AMD card outperforms the NVIDIA card in a head-to-head test.