NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1683MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +145%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Trinidad

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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