Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 8GeForce GTX 1070
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGP104 (GP104-200-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders512vs1920
Compute Units8vs15
Core clock300 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs32vs120

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 1070
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GTX 1070
TDP65 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs10 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better