AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Vega 10 GP104
GPU variant Vega 10 XL (215-0894216) GP104-200-A1
Architecture GCN 5.0 Pascal
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 12,500 million 7,200 million
Die size 495 mm² 314 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 14th, 2017 Jun 10th, 2016
Generation Vega GeForce 10
Predecessor Polaris GeForce 900
Successor Navi GeForce 20
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 399 USD 379 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 23 in our database 125 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1156 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1471 MHz 1683 MHz
SOC clock 960 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Memory bus width 2048 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 409.6 GB/s 256.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 3584 1920
TMUs 224 120
ROPs 64 64
Compute units 56
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 4 MB 2 MB
SM count 15

Performance

Pixel rate 94.14 GPixel/s 107.7 GPixel/s
Texture rate 329.5 GTexel/s 202.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 21.09 TFLOPS (2:1) 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 10.54 TFLOPS 6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 659.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 202.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 280 mm 11 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 112 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 210 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 550 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Board number D050-57 PG411 SKU 20

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4
CUDA 6.1

Other Features

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