NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +165%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Sky

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

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

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

30.40 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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