GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a speed of 1600 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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 Ti		19808 points
	Difference: 1203 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a bit (about 6%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14680 (6%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28864 (39%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.