Compare any two graphics cards:
VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a GPU core clock speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2432 Stream Processors, 152 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 180 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is just a bit (about 15%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 32728 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much (more or less 119%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 55840 (119%)

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

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Radeon RX 590

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Specifications

Display Specifications

Hide Specifications

Model GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Radeon RX 590
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2017 November 2018
Code Name GP104-300 Polaris 30
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1607 MHz 1469 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 244264 Mtexels/sec 211536 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 47008 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2432 2304
Texture Mapping Units 152 144
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 12 nm
Transistors 7200 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Radeon RX 590

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

Be the first to leave a comment!

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*

WordPress Anti Spam by WP-SpamShield