NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

13% slightly better overall score

1836 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

40 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

40609 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34371 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

45743 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

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

114% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

164.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

7% slightly better floating point performance

5.26 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

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

218th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2018 October

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 RX 580 2048SP benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 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 RX 580 2048SP.