Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon 680M

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, vs AMD Radeon 680M. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and AMD Radeon 680M
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
89
52
42
24
42
23
17
10
The Witcher 3
85
67
46
24
19
21
10
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
133
93
66
32
39
23
20
n/a
Far Cry 6
70
62
50
23
33
27
19
9
Hogwarts Legacy
46
36
28
14
18
12
9
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
55
49
31
22
27
24
19
10
Ghost of Tsushima
41
32
25
12
19
11
9
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
46
41
23
10
19
15
10
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
76
73
49
22
25
24
17
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High7127
1080p Ultra5620
1440p Ultra4014
4K Ultra20-
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
5844
AMD Radeon 680M
2194
Time Spy60912337
Solar Bay1580910075
Port Royal12751022
Fire Strike187076948
Night Raid7227327970
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
53429
AMD Radeon 680M
28675
Background Blur142.3 frames/s73.8 frames/s
Face Detection65.1 frames/s30.1 frames/s
Horizon Detection2.2 Gpix/sec0.93 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection3.23 Gpix/sec1.17 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur3.74 Gpix/sec1.17 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.3 Gpix/sec0.37 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching195.6 Gpix/sec105 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics5161.6 fps4640 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
13504
AMD Radeon 680M
4668
G2D Mark847751
DirectX 11100 fps45 fps
DirectX 1248 fps22 fps
GPU Compute6129 Ops/s2163 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
75.4 fps
AMD Radeon 680M
27.3 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)423.4 fps142 fps
Car Chase391.1 fpsn/a
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)360 fpsn/a
T-Rex1942.3 fpsn/a
ALU 25965.8 fpsn/a
Driver Overhead 2271.6 fpsn/a
APIOpenGLVulkan
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation2186n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia AMD
Build Discrete Integrated
Announced January, 10, 2016 January, 1, 2022
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Universal
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Pascal RDNA 2.0
Codename GP104 Rembrandt
Price 379 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1506 MHz 400 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1683 MHz 2200-2400 MHz
Shader Units 1920 768
TMUs 120 48
ROPs 64 32
Execution Units 15 12
Ray Tracing Cores No 12
Tensor Cores No n/a
L1 cache 48 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 2000 KB/core 1024 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 108 Gpix/sec 70-77 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 202 GTex/s 106-115 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.5 TFLOPS 3.4-3.7 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 150 W 15 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 16 nm 6 nm
Transistor Size 314 mm² 208 mm²
Transistor count 7 billion 13.1 billion
Transistor density 22.29 MTr/mm² 62.98 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR5 System Shared
Memory Frequency 2002 MHz n/a
Bus 256 bit n/a
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 8 GB n/a
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
256.3 GB/s
AMD Radeon 680M
n/a

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA 6.1 n/a
DisplayPort 1.4a n/a
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No No

Results

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