NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock1683MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +1200%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1920

Shading Units

320

120

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV670

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

110W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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