GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
Neptune CF
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2016
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2x 2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2x 4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (FL 11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.5
-
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
+
-
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-