NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon R9 285
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+96%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 285
3.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1792
120
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.38 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
102.8 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
3.290 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.290 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
205.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
190W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Tonga
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO
(215-0851128)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
5 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
