NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and AMD Radeon RX 590 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 GDDR5X

AMD Radeon RX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1469 MHz
Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1683 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 175 Watt

Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 1469 MHz
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 8000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 16 nm

Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 16 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X	AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G3D Mark		9391
PassMark - G2D Mark		789
Geekbench - OpenCL		45923
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4757

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X	AMD Radeon RX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 4.0
Code name	GP104	Polaris 30
Launch date	4 December 2018	15 November 2018
Place in performance rating	not rated	278
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		7.1 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate		49.54 GP/s
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture fill rate		222.48 GTexel/s
Texture Units		144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz	8000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		256 GB/s
Memory bus width		256 bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support