AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Vega 10 GP104
GPU variant Vega 10 XTX AIR 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 Jun 27th, 2017 Dec 4th, 2018
Generation Radeon Pro GeForce 10
Production Active End-of-life
Launch price 999 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 900
Successor GeForce 20
Reviews 125 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1382 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost clock 1600 MHz 1683 MHz
Memory clock 945 MHz 1890 Mbps effective 1001 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5X
Memory bus width 2048 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 483.8 GB/s 256.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 4096 1920
TMUs 256 120
ROPs 64 64
Compute units 64
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 4 MB 2 MB
SM count 15

Performance

Pixel rate 102.4 GPixel/s 107.7 GPixel/s
Texture rate 409.6 GTexel/s 202.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 26.21 TFLOPS (2:1) 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 13.11 TFLOPS 6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 819.2 GFLOPS (1:16) 202.0 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 112 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 300 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 700 W 450 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Board number D050-11
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches

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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