Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Radeon RX 590
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 590

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
GPU NamePolaris 30 (Polaris 30 XTX)vsGP104 ()
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size244 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2304vs2048
Compute Units36vs16
Core clock1257 MHzvs1442 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs144vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 590GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
TDP0 wattsvs120 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs15 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    49.44 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    92.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 590
    222.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    184.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 590
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    256.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 590
    7119.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    5906.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better