GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon R9 370X

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 370X
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1920vs1280
Compute Units15vs24
Core clock1506 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs120vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070Radeon R9 370X
TDP150 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better