GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
288 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
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
-
-