Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Oct 2018
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 580 2048SP

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 580 2048SPGeForce GTX 1070
GPU NamePolaris 20 (Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052))
vsGP104 (GP104-200-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2048vs1920
Compute Units32vs15
Core clock1168 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs128vs120

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 580 2048SPGeForce GTX 1070
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 580 2048SPGeForce GTX 1070
TDP150 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date15 Oct 2018vs10 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    41.09 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    164.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    5259.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better