GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R5 230
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs370 million
Shaders1920vs160
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock1506 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs64vs4
TMUs120vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R5 230
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R5 230
TDP150 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better