NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 560
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 Clock has increased by 32% (1683MHz vs 1275MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+147%
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560
2.611 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+227%
6078
Radeon RX 560
1855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+253%
2825
Radeon RX 560
799
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
1175 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1275 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1024
120
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.40 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
81.60 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.611 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.611 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
163.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Polaris 21
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
16 nm
Process Size
14 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
3 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
123 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
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
