AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1683MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +63%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +13%

6876

GeForce GTX 1070

6065

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +15%

30

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +14%

57

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +12%

87

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +20%

52

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +17%

93

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

125

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce GTX 1070 +4%

48

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +8%

91

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1070 +34%

148

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1920

224

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP104

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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