Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2017 Jan 2013
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile Sea Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1215 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1379 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 256.3GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 16
Shading Units 2048 1792
TMUs 128 112
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 88.26 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.5 GTexel/s 103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 88.26 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.648 TFLOPS 3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 176.5 GFLOPS 828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP104 Tahiti
GPU Variant N17E-G2-A1 Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
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 200W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors None 2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU 550 W
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
Shader Model 6.4 5.1