GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q and Radeon RX 480 Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N17E-G2 Max-Q
Polaris
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2017
August 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1265 - 1379 MHz
1077 MHz
Core clock speed
1101 - 1215 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,648 gflops
4,963 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.5
155.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.3 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
+
-