NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 640

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 640 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

275% significantly better overall score

556 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q and the Radeon RX 640? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15883 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15859 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14348 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

1082 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1287 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

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

357% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

50 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

328% significantly higher pixel rate

20.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

242% significantly higher texture rate

51.48 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

318th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 600 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 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 RX 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 640 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

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 Radeon RX 640 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 640.