NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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

3644 points

57% significantly better overall score

2318 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

51 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

25% 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

150 W

23% slightly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

151% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

192.96 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

6.18 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2304

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

144

20% 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

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2018 March

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 580X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon RX 580X in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly 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. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the Radeon RX 580X.