NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1215 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
16
—
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
115W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
6.1
—
Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,209
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.