Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking117not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.77no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLINavi 14
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 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 cores38401408
Core clock speed1506 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz1845 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rateno data162.4
Floating-point processing powerno data5.196 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data88

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 4.0 x8
Lengthno data180 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+
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_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 7 October 2019
Chip lithography 16 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 110 Watt

RX 5500 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 172.7% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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