AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
2176 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1683MHz vs 1600MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+102%
13.11 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+14%
6973
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+18%
3348
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
Blender
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+12%
742
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
Graphics Card
Jun 2017
Release Date
Dec 2018
Radeon Pro
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1382 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1600 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
945 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5X
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
483.8GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
4096
Shading Units
1920
256
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
102.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
26.21 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
819.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GP104
Vega 10 XTX AIR
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
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
