NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.9x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 580 Watt
Launch date 15 August 2016 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • 10.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 210.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2048
  • Around 67% better floating-point performance: 2x 5,632 gflops vs 6,738 gflops
  • 675x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 8 GB/s
  • Around 58% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 19.441 vs 12.283
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 210.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 2048
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 gflops vs 6,738 gflops
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 8 GB/s
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441 vs 12.283

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
12.283
19.441
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 290X2
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 19.441
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 5536

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP104B Hawaii
Launch date 15 August 2016 24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $389.99 $1,399
Place in performance rating 290 292
Price now $359.99
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 43.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1645 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 1000 MHz
CUDA cores 1920
Floating-point performance 6,738 gflops 2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Pipelines 2048 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 210.6 GTexel / s 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB / s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 8 GB/s 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready