NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1683MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +147%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1920

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

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

20.40 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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