GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. 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		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

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 will be 60% faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 43%) more effective at anisotropic 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 quite a bit (more or less 30%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.