AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +96%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1920

112

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GP104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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