NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 10
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
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Boost Clock
1683 MHz
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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
15
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Shading Units
1920
2048
TMUs
120
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
107.7 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GP104-200-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
150W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (5.1)
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,078
2,310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
2,825
1,209
GTA 5 2160p
48
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GTA 5 1440p
84
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GTA 5 1080p
148
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.