GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this specific card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
	Difference: 2837 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 157286 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be much (approximately 43%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78224 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (approximately 30%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22400 (30%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.