NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+611%
6.463 TFLOPS
AMD Radeon 540
0.908 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 10
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
384
120
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Lexa
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
16 nm
Process Size
14 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
