AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Polaris 30 GP104
GPU variant Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006) N17E-G2-A1
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Manufacturing process 12 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 7,200 million
Die size 232 mm² 314 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 15th, 2018
Generation Polaris
Production Active
Launch price 279 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 36 in our database
Predecessor Arctic Islands
Successor Vega

Clocks

Base clock 1469 MHz 1215 MHz
Boost clock 1545 MHz 1379 MHz
Memory clock 2000 MHz 8 Gbps effective 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 256.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 49.44 GPixel/s 88.26 GPixel/s
Texture rate 222.5 GTexel/s 176.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 7.119 TFLOPS (1:1) 88.26 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 7.119 TFLOPS 5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 445.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 176.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 175 W 115 W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Board number C944-41 E2914 SKU 10

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 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

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 27th, 2017
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 125 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 900M
Successor GeForce 20 Mobile

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