Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2016 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 10 | Sea Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1506 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1683 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 | 15 | |
| Shading Units | 1920 | 1792 |
| TMUs | 120 | 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 | 107.7 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 202.0 GTexel/s | 103.6 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 101.0 GFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 6.463 TFLOPS | 3.315 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 202.0 GFLOPS | 828.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GP104 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | GP104-200-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 | 150W | 200W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| 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 |