NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X 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

3644 points

5506% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 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

512 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

83% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

60% significantly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

184.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

5.91 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2816

46% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

176

46% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

537th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 390X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. 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. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 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 GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon R9 390X.