GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2012
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    287%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 187% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 XT

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 XT
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti LE)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1920vs1536
Compute Units15vs24
Core clock1506 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs120vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon HD 7870 XT
TDP150 wattsvs185 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs19 Nov 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    88.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    2842.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    24720
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    8590

Points (higher is better)