EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Pascal) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (RDNA 1) and has 4 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition has the GP104-200-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Pascal architecture.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is based on the graphics chip Navi 14 XTX, which comes from the RDNA 1 architecture.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GP104-200-A1 GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
Pascal Architecture RDNA 1
15 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
1920 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 32
120 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition clocks at 2.002 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 8.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.594 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.784 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.74 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 150 W.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 135 W.

150 W TDP 135 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G has 1 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 47 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 8 Lanes interface.

267 mm Length 177 mm
111 mm Height 102 mm
-- Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING Black Edition has been manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers since Q2/2016.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G came on the market in Q3/2019 and will have a structure width of 7 nanometers manufactured.

08G-P4-5173-KR Part-no 11295-07-20G
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2019
379 $ (Reference) Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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