AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1683MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +10%

6.463 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +75%

657

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Dec 2018

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2304

Shading Units

1920

144

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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