NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 8 months late

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

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +4%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

232 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

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