GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon R9 290X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 290X
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R9 290X
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Hawaii XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
October 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
947 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
320 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
+
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-