Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2014 Jun 2016
Generation Volcanic Islands GeForce 10
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1350 MHz 2002 MHz
Base Clock 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1683 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 256bit
Bandwidth 345.6GB/s 256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44
Shading Units 2816 1920
TMUs 176 120
ROPs 64 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 2 MB
SM Count 15
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 64.00 GPixel/s 107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.0 GTexel/s 202.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.632 TFLOPS 6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 704.0 GFLOPS 202.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 101.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii GP104
GPU Variant Hawaii XT(215-0852000) GP104-200-A1
Architecture GCN 2.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 580W 150W
Suggested PSU 950 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 4x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 6.3 6.4
CUDA 6.1