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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

217%
217%

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

51%
51%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is approximately 166% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
GP104
Tahiti
CoresDifferent
1920
2048
TMUsDifferent
120
128
ROPsDifferent
64
32
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
256 bit
384 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameDifferent
GP104
Tahiti
GPU VariantDifferent
GP104-200-A1
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
ArchitectureDifferent
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
16 nm
28 nm
TransistorsDifferent
7,200 million
4,313 million
DensityDifferent
22.9M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
314 mm²
352 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
BGA-2150
N/A

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Release DateDifferent
Jun 10th, 2016
Jun 22nd, 2012
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 10
Southern Islands(HD 7900)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 900
Northern Islands
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 20
Sea Islands
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
379 USD
499 USD
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
125 in our database
191 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Base ClockDifferent
1506 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost ClockDifferent
1683 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory ClockDifferent
2002 MHz8 Gbps effective
1500 MHz6 Gbps effective

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory SizeDifferent
8 GB
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
256 bit
384 bit
BandwidthDifferent
256.3 GB/s
288.0 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Shading UnitsDifferent
1920
2048
TMUsDifferent
120
128
ROPsDifferent
64
32
SM CountDifferent
15
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
2 MB
768 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
32

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Pixel RateDifferent
107.7 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
202.0 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
101.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
6.463 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
202.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
1,075.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
267 mm10.5 inches
275 mm10.8 inches
HeightDifferent
112 mm4.4 inches
111 mm4.4 inches
WidthDifferent
40 mm1.6 inches
38 mm1.5 inches
TDPDifferent
150 W
300 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
450 W
700 W
OutputsDifferent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG411 SKU 20
109-C38637-00

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
DirectXDifferent
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
VulkanDifferent
1.3
1.2.170
CUDADifferent
6.1
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
6.5 (5.1)

Comparison Summary

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