AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 15 August 2016
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1645 MHz vs 1200 MHz
4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 512
3.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5536 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 512
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5536 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1429

5536

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429	5536
PassMark - G3D Mark		10465
PassMark - G2D Mark		603
Geekbench - OpenCL		47476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GP104B
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	949	290
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$389.99
Price now		$359.99
Value for money (0-100)		43.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1645 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	512	2048
Core clock speed		1506 MHz
CUDA cores		1920
Floating-point performance		6,738 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Texture fill rate		210.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Transistor count		7,200 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		256 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		8 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready