Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
384 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1683MHz vs 1545MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+10%
7119
GeForce GTX 1070
6463
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
4775
GeForce GTX 1070
+27%
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
2147
GeForce GTX 1070
+31%
2825
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 590
24
GeForce GTX 1070
+8%
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 590
46
GeForce GTX 1070
+8%
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 590
71
GeForce GTX 1070
+8%
77
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
39
GeForce GTX 1070
+10%
43
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
74
GeForce GTX 1070
+6%
79
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+1%
101
GeForce GTX 1070
100
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
42
GeForce GTX 1070
+14%
48
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
67
GeForce GTX 1070
+25%
84
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
110
GeForce GTX 1070
+34%
148
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Jun 2016
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
2304
Shading Units
1920
144
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
150W
450 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 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GP104
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 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