NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

514% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

324% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

530% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

493% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

439% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

337% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

401% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2000 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

45 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

573% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

215% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

215% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

274% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

274% 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

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2021 January

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 Vega 8 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 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 Vega 8.