GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Radeon RX 480 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
Radeon RX 480
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104 SLI
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
June 2016
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Bridgeless CrossFire
-
1
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1266 MHz
Compute units
-
36
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1120 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
5,834 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
14400 Million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
182.3
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
-
2.0
DisplayPort support
-
1.4HDR
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12_1
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
n/a
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
-
n/a
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
n/a
FreeSync
-
+
FRTC
-
1
HD3D
-
n/a
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
+
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
n/a
UVD
-
+
VCE
-
+
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
+