Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking194not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation31.25no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGP104BPicasso-M
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 August 2016 (8 years ago)2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$389.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2048192
CUDA cores1920no data
Core clock speed1506 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt10 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature94 °Cno data
Texture fill rate210.614.40
Floating-point processing power6.738 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs12812

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth256 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsDP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVIMotherboard Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

GPU Boost3.0no data
VR Ready+no data
Ansel+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 10 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and Radeon Vega 3 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 3 Embedded is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
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