GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
November 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
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
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
947 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
275 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
151.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-