NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 590

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2017
Nov 2018
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Polaris
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1215 MHz
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1545 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
16
-
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
36

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
88.26 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.5 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
88.26 GFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.648 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.5 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
Polaris 30
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
16 nm
12 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
232 mm²

Board Design

TDP
115W
175W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.4