NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +45%

8.186 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

19

SM Count

-

2432

Shading Units

2816

152

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

255.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

127.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.186 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

255.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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