NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
vs
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Our Verdict: Upgrading from GTX 1070 to RX Vega 64 is not recommended as it is less than 30% of improvement in performance. In general, a reasonable upgrade is between 30% and 50% or more to justify the purchase of new hardware.

Game Performance at selected quality settings

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz

It is clear that the GTX 1070 is a significantly more capable high-end card that can play AAA titles at 1080p/1440p with 50-60 frames per second. In terms of memory, the GTX 1070 's 8192 MB RAM is more than enough for modern games and should not cause any bottlenecks. In short the performance is exceptional, there's no question that this is one of the most powerful single GPU out there in 2016 .

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 / Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz

It is worth noting that the RX Vega 64 is a very power hungry card and requires a decent power supply unit. In terms of memory, the RX Vega 64 's 8192 MB RAM is more than enough for modern games and should not cause any bottlenecks. It is important to know that RX Vega 64 's max load temperature is very high and might require custom cooling solutions. In short the performance is exceptional, there's no question that this is one of the most powerful single GPU out there in 2017 .

Board Design

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
Board Number	PG411 SKU 20	D05001
Length	10.5 inches 267 mm	11 inches 279 mm
Outputs	1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Slot Width	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
TDP	150 W	295 W

Clock Speeds

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1536 MHz
GPU Clock	1506 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory Clock	2002 MHz 8008 MHz effective	945 MHz 1890 MHz effective

Graphics Card

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Generation	GeForce 1000	Vega (RX Vega)
Launch Price	379 USD	499 USD
Production	Active	Active
Release Date	Jun 10th, 2016	Aug 7th, 2017

Graphics Features

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	1.2	2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.1	6.1
Vulkan	1.1.82	1.1.82

Graphics Processor

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 5.0
Die Size	314 mm²	510 mm²
GPU Name	GP104	Vega 10
GPU Variant	GP104-200-A1	Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)
Process Size	16 nm	14 nm
Transistors	7,200 million	12,500 million

Memory

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Memory Bus	256 bit	2048 bit
Memory Size	8192 MB	8192 MB
Memory Type	GDDR5	HBM2

Render Config

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
ROPs	64	64
Shading Units	1920	4096
TMUs	120	256

Theoretical Performance

	GTX 1070	RX Vega 64
FP16 (half) performance	101.0 GFLOPS (1:64)	25,166 GFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance	6,463 GFLOPS	12,583 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance	202.0 GFLOPS (1:32)	786.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	98.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	202.0 GTexel/s	393.2 GTexel/s