Radeon RX 590 and GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X - video card comparison
Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 30
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2018
December 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1545 MHz
1683 MHz
Core clock speed
1469 MHz
1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
222.5
202.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
256.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-