GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs Radeon RX Vega 20

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataPascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameno dataGP104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 December 2018 (5 years 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 coresno data1920
Core clock speedno data1506 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1683 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data202.0
Floating-point processing powerno data6.463 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data120

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 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR5X
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1001 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.3 GB/s

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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 20 and GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 20
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