GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R5 230
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R5 230 |
131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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GPU Name | GP104 (GP104-200-A1) | vs | Caicos (Caicos PRO) |
Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 314 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
Transistors | 7,200 million | vs | 370 million |
Shaders | 1920 | vs | 160 |
Compute Units | 15 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
ROPs | 64 | vs | 4 |
TMUs | 120 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 667 MHz
1334 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 8192 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1070 | | Radeon R5 230 | |
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TDP | 150 watts | vs | 19 watts |
Release Date | 10 Jun 2016 | vs | 3 Apr 2014 |
GeForce GTX 1070
96.40 GP/s
Radeon R5 230
2.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
180.70 GT/s
Radeon R5 230
5.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
256.30 GB/s
Radeon R5 230
10.67 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1070
5783.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R5 230
200.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better