GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    298%
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 198% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1920vs1280
Compute Units15vs20
Core clock1506 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs120vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
TDP150 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    80.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    2560.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    24720
  • Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
    8290

Points (higher is better)