NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 320.00
$ 625.00 significantly less expensive
$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points
6138 points
68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS
107 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS
100 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS
106 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
56 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points
9129 points
50% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points
817.47 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points
68286 points
263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points
86533 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points
77122 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points
77386 points
311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points
92086 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points
91729 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed
1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz
1750 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
4096 Bit
1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s
1024 GB/s
299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
100% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s
115.26 Gigapixels/s
7% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s
432.24 Gigatexels/s
113% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS
13.8 TFLOPS
113% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920
3840
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
240
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586
79th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
HBM2

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 VII comparison

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

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. Despite this, the Radeon VII 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 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 VII at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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

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