NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2520MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070
+459%
36.13 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
Radeon RX 9070
+342%
26876
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
Radeon RX 9070
+362%
13072
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 10
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1330 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
3584
120
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
56
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
220W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Navi 48
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
Pascal
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
4 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
