AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1683MHz vs 1340MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +4%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

GeForce GTX 1070 +39%

6065

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce GTX 1070 +52%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce GTX 1070 +42%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce GTX 1070 +54%

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce GTX 1070 +59%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce GTX 1070 +46%

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce GTX 1070 +28%

100

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce GTX 1070 +40%

84

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1340 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

-

SM Count

15

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1920

144

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

185W

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 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

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