GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon HD 7950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 7950
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
Radeon HD 7950
4907
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 7950
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
January 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1250 MHz
Compute units
-
28
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
89.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
240 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
Number of Eyefinity displays
-
6
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
+
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
+