NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 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

3644 points

7821% significantly better overall score

46 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

580% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7019 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

598% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7602 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

958% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4741 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

623% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6895 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

1395% significantly higher pixel rate

7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

835% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

400% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

545th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 8790M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon HD 8790M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon HD 8790M.