GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon HD 3550

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104

RV620

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2016

August 2008

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

594 MHz

CUDA cores

1920

-

Floating-point performance

6,463 gflops

47.52 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

7,200 million

181 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1920

40

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

30 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

94 °C

-

Texture fill rate

202.0

2.376

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

8 GB/s

792 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

6.336 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

2x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

3.3

Shader Model

6.4

4.1

Vulkan

+

N/A

Ansel

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-