NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 4118.00 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

99% significantly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

38292 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

41978 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

62% significantly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1206 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

21% slightly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

179% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% 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

134th of 586

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 August

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 RX 470 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 470 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 Radeon RX 470 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the Radeon RX 470.