Radeon E9173 PCIe vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking119not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.75no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLILexa
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3840512
Core clock speed1506 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data39.01
Floating-point processing powerno data1.248 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data48 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 3 October 2017
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 35 Watt

E9173 PCIe has an age advantage of 1 year, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 757.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Radeon E9173 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 SLI is a desktop card while Radeon E9173 PCIe is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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