NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 14% (1683MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +63%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070

6067

Radeon RX Vega 56 +13%

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Radeon RX Vega 56 +15%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Radeon RX Vega 56 +14%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Radeon RX Vega 56 +12%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Radeon RX Vega 56 +20%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Radeon RX Vega 56 +17%

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

100

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070 +4%

48

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

84

Radeon RX Vega 56 +8%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070 +34%

148

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

3584

120

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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