NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2018
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 10
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1506 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
15
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Shading Units
1920
1280
TMUs
120
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Neptune
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,078
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.