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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 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

2318 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

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

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

41822 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

41822 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1340 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

0.12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

105% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

9% 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

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2018 March

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 580X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 580X GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

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 580X at 185 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 580X over the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.