NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 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

2142 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

44522 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

48947 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

42732 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

49182 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 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

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

117% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

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

204th of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2016 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

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 480 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 RX 480 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.