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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1070

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Key Differences

  • GeForce GTX 1070 has more Memory bandwidth (256.3 GB/s vs 256.0 GB/s).
  • Boost clock: AMD Radeon RX 580 has 1340 MHz; GeForce GTX 1070 has 1,683 MHz.
  • TDP / TBP / board power: AMD Radeon RX 580 has 185 W; GeForce GTX 1070 has 150 W.
  • Architecture: AMD Radeon RX 580 has GCN 4 (Polaris); GeForce GTX 1070 has Pascal.
  • Launch date: AMD Radeon RX 580 has 2017-04-18; GeForce GTX 1070 has 2016-06-10.
  • Process node: AMD Radeon RX 580 has 14 nm; GeForce GTX 1070 has TSMC 16 nm.
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Muted cells indicate unavailable, not applicable, or not directly comparable specifications.
Spec AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD GeForce GTX 1070
Overview
Product name AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Architecture GCN 4 (Polaris) Pascal
Generation / family Radeon RX 500 Series GeForce GTX 10 Series
GPU codename Polaris 20 XT GP104
Launch date 2017-04-18 2016-06-10
Launch MSRP 229 Unknown
Market segment Desktop, Mainstream Desktop in GeForce GTX 10 Series
Board type / entry type Reference GPU Reference GPU
GPU
Process node 14 nm TSMC 16 nm
Die size 232 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor count 5700 million 7.2 billion
GPU chip Polaris 20 GP104
SM / multiprocessor count 36 15
Shader processors Raw counts do not scale linearly across architectures or generations. 2304 Stream Processors 1920 CUDA Cores
ROPs 32 64
TMUs 144 120
Clocks
Base / Core clock 1257 MHz 1,506 MHz
Boost clock 1340 MHz 1,683 MHz
Memory clock 2000 MHz 2,002 MHz
Memory
Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256-bit 256-bit
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 256.3 GB/s
Bus / Interface
Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP / PCI / PCIe distinction PCIe PCIe
Power
TDP / TBP / board power 185 W 150 W
Recommended PSU 450 W 450 W
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot, 267 mm length, 40 mm width
Display / Media
Display outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Features
DirectX support DirectX 12 DirectX 12.1
OpenGL support OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan support Vulkan 1.2 Vulkan 1.4
CUDA support Not applicable 6.1
Shader Model 6.7 6.8
Performance / Benchmarks
FP32 throughput 6.17 TFLOPS 6.46 TFLOPS
FP16 throughput 6.17 TFLOPS 0.1 TFLOPS

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