Radeon RX 7990 XTX vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking119not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.80no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLINavi 31
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38406144
Core clock speed1506 MHz2500 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz3599 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt405 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,382
Floating-point processing powerno data88.45 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data96

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data287 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data3x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz3000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.15 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 405 Watt

GTX 1070 SLI has 35% lower power consumption.

RX 7990 XTX, on the other hand, has a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Radeon RX 7990 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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