AMD Radeon R9 290X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

amd

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

320 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon R9 290X

N/A Oct 2013 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

4GB GDDR5 290W N/A Oct 2013

Radeon R9 290X

$549 • Oct 2013

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon R9 290X	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Memory Size	4 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	290 W	150 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	N/A	1683 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	256.3 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	16nm
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Pascal
Shading Units	2816	1920
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	176	120
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	512-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1250 MHz	2002 MHz
Pixel Rate	64 GPixel/s	107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320 GTexel/s	256.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	5.632 GFLOPS	6.463 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	438 mm²	314 mm²
Transistors	6200 Million	7200 Million
Required PSU	600 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12	12.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3819

AMD Radeon R9 290X

5844 (+53%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

43410

AMD Radeon R9 290X

53429 (+23%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

FPS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

75.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

8530

AMD Radeon R9 290X

13504 (+58%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+60%)

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+78%)

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+132%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+34%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+56%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+58%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+66%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+55%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+46%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+51%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+45%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+44%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+29%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+17%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+0%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon R9 290X (+0%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+34%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+42%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+16%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon R9 290X

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

Radeon R9 290X

+56.2%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070