AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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Radeon RX 570 compared with GeForce GTX 1070

	AMDRadeon RX 570	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1070
Overview
Released
Released	April 2017	June 2016
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	GCN 4	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,048	1,920
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,244 MHz	1,683 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	Fourth-generation GCN (Polaris), 128 texture units, 32 ROPs and 5.7 billion transistors. AMD's retained support page is labelled RX 570 (OEM) and includes slower OEM clocks; the original retail baseline and both named MSI ARMOR configurations use the published maximum 1,244 MHz. Photo shows MSI ARMOR 4G, not an AMD reference board.	Main figures and photo describe the Founders Edition, verified in MSI's retained datasheet. Partner boards can use different clocks, coolers and connectors.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	14 nm (PCWorld and Les Numériques)	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated hardware ray accelerators	No dedicated RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS
Base clock
Base clock	AMD publishes a 926–1,168 MHz OEM range; the original retail baseline is 1,168 MHz (PCWorld). Both named MSI ARMOR boards publish up to 1,244 MHz core frequency without a separate base figure.	1506 MHz
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	4 GB GDDR5 or 8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s or –	–
Memory detail
Memory detail	MSI ARMOR 4G and 8G both specify 7,000 MHz effective GDDR5. AMD publishes up to 224 GB/s for the GPU, but MSI does not state bandwidth separately for either capacity; the 8 GB configuration therefore omits it.	8008 MHz effective memory speed (MSI Founders Edition); numerical bandwidth omitted because the maker source used does not publish it.
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	150 W	150 W
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort, 1 × HDMI and dual-link DVI-D on both MSI ARMOR boards. AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4 HDR and HDMI 4K60 support, but DVI as No; partner outputs differ.	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × dual-link DVI-D; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	–	7680 × 4320
Power connector
Power connector	One 8-pin on both MSI ARMOR boards	1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	450 W	500 W
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	246 × 130 × 39 mm and 622 g for both MSI ARMOR 4G and 8G; MSI publishes PCI Express x16 without a generation in these datasheets	268 × 111 × 38 mm and 1096 g (MSI Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encoding and decoding; HDMI 4K60 support	–