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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1070

Radeon RX 580
VS
GeForce GTX 1070
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 580 with 2304 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older GeForce GTX 1070 that utilizes 15 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR5
VS
8 GB GDDR5
48.2
(Average)
Value Index
43.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 over RX 580
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 14 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 40%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 48% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 27 FPS
  • Achieves 32% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (53K vs 40K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 580
vs
GTX 1070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
39
31
17
88
50
41
25
The Witcher 3
50
41
22
12
83
68
47
25
Counter-Strike 2
74
55
38
15
135
95
68
32
Far Cry 6
59
49
35
17
73
64
47
24
Hogwarts Legacy
34
26
20
9
45
38
29
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
48
42
27
15
54
49
33
22
Ghost of Tsushima
33
23
19
10
43
31
24
13
Cyberpunk 2077
33
27
16
-
45
44
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
52
32
15
79
73
48
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 52 72
1080p Ultra 39 57
1440p Ultra 27 40
4K Ultra 13 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 580
4183
GTX 1070 +40%
5858
Time Spy 4354 6091
Solar Bay - 16030
Port Royal 527 1283
Fire Strike 14980 18705
Wild Life Extreme 8907 12186
Night Raid 56859 72459
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 580
40514
GTX 1070 +32%
53429
Background Blur 59.5 img/sec 142.3 img/sec
Face Detection 33.8 img/sec 65.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.92 Gpixels/sec 3.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec 195.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5395.1 FPS 5161.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 580
n/a
GTX 1070
3551

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 580
8784
GTX 1070 +54%
13511
G2D Mark 770 848
DirectX 11 60 FPS 99 FPS
DirectX 12 43 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 3413 Ops/s 6123 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33123 & 53848 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 580
391.86
GTX 1070 +42%
556.69
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 91 & 1375 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 580
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GeForce GTX 1070
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 580
7905
GTX 1070 +5%
8330
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 580
8166
GTX 1070 +2%
8293
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 580
5642
GTX 1070 +9%
6176
Image Classification (SP) 3143 2295
Image Segmentation (HP) 3955 4955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7872 10587
Face Detection (HP) 11922 8747
Pose Estimation (Q) 41162 51263
Text Classification (SP) 1199 1461
Machine Translation (HP) 1773 2342
Object Detection (SP) 3620 2960
Depth Estimation (Q) 13995 15275
Style Transfer (SP) 84083 104907
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 January 10, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Polaris 20 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060 - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (82nd and 75th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1257 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1340 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 2304 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 15
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 43 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 580
6.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1070 +5%
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 185 W 150 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 16 nm
Die Size 232 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 580
256 GB/s
GTX 1070
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1070:
    - There's a version with GDDR5X memory.

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