NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) and AMD Radeon R9 M485X 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 Radeon R9 M485X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

2.1x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 723 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 202.0 GTexel / s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
2.2x better floating-point performance: 6,463 gflops vs 2,961 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13510 vs 3661
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 851 vs 417

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops vs 2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13510 vs 3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	851 vs 417

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M485X

Around 7% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1920
625x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Pipelines	2048 vs 1920
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M485X

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13510

3661

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

851

417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
PassMark - G3D Mark	13510	3661
PassMark - G2D Mark	851	417
Geekbench - OpenCL	44921
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	6065

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon R9 M485X
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 3.0
Code name	GP104	Amethyst
Launch date	10 June 2016	15 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$379
Place in performance rating	278	272
Price now	$359.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	45.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	723 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops	2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	1920	2048
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	No outputs
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	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin	None
Width	2-slot
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
Enduro