NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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
71% significantly better overall score
2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points
505% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
998 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points
48735 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40056 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points
60508 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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
21% slightly higher boost clock speed
1380 MHz

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
16% slightly lower TDP
175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s
143% significantly higher pixel rate
44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s
1% slightly higher texture rate
198.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS
1% slightly better floating point performance
6.36 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

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586
200th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
2020 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 590 GME benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 GME in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 GME at 175 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the Radeon RX 590 GME.

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