NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) vs AMD FireStream 9270

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) and AMD FireStream 9270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

AMD FireStream 9270

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 750 MHz
6.7x more texture fill rate: 202.0 GTexel / s vs 30 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 1920 vs 800
5.4x better floating-point performance: 6,463 gflops vs 1,200.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 160 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
10.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13509 vs 1341
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 847 vs 473

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 June 2016 vs 13 November 2008
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s vs 30 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1920 vs 800
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops vs 1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 160 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13509 vs 1341
PassMark - G2D Mark	847 vs 473

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9270

450x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9270

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13509

1341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

847

473

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD FireStream 9270
PassMark - G3D Mark	13509	1341
PassMark - G2D Mark	847	473
Geekbench - OpenCL	47422
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1063

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD FireStream 9270
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP104	RV770
Launch date	10 June 2016	13 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$379
Place in performance rating	293	294
Price now	$359.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	45.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	750 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops	1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	1920	800
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s	30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	160 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	1x DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin	2x 6-pin
Width	2-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality