Radeon RX 580 OEM vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking121not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.83no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIEllesmere
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)29 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$229

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 cores38402304
Core clock speed1506 MHz1120 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz1266 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rateno data182.3
Floating-point processing powerno data5.834 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data144

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 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 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_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 29 June 2016
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 150 Watt

GTX 1070 SLI has an age advantage of 1 month.

RX 580 OEM, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Radeon RX 580 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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