NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

62% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

74% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33667 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

970 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

6307% significantly higher memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

111% significantly lower TDP

190 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

184% significantly higher pixel rate

31.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

108.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

62% significantly better floating point performance

3.48 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

14% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

203rd of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs Radeon R9 380 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 380 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q is better than the Radeon R9 380.