NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon R9 290

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +33%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 +64%

6066

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

1920

Shading Units

2560

120

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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