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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury 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

2550 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

60 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

51 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4754 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

53458 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

67144 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

51276 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

61343 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

512 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

205% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

224 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

7.17 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3584

75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

224

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

174th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 Fury Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

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 Fury specs and performance

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

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon R9 Fury at 275 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 Fury.