Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1683MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
4940
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+30%
6463
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 470
3679
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+65%
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 470
1701
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+66%
2825
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Dec 2018
Arctic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
2048
Shading Units
1920
128
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GP104
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4