Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB | GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac AMP! |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 31% | 27% |
| Hitman 3 | 11% | 4% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 31% | 27% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 37% | 33% |
| FIFA 21 | 65% | 63% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 3% | 3% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 39% | 35% |
| Genshin Impact | 31% | 27% |
| Far Cry 6 | 1% | 6% |
| The Medium | 14% | 8% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB are very slightly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac AMP!.
The GTX 1070 has a 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the Vega Frontier, but the Vega Frontier has 136 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1070. As a result, the Vega Frontier exhibits a 216.8 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 1070. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The GTX 1070 has a 7 MHz higher core clock speed than the Vega Frontier and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 1070 providing 0.39999999999999 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The Vega Frontier was released less than a year after the GTX 1070, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.
The Vega Frontier has 8192 MB more video memory than the GTX 1070, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GTX 1070 has superior memory performance.
The GTX 1070 has 0.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Vega Frontier, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 1070 is marginally better than the Vega Frontier.
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB has 4096 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac AMP! has 1920. However, the actual shader performance of the Vega Frontier is 4260 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 1070 is 4658. The GTX 1070 having 398 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Vega Frontier performs better when taking into account other relevant data.
The Vega Frontier transistor size technology is 2 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 1070. This means that the Vega Frontier is expected to run very slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 1070.
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB requires 275 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 1070 Zotac AMP! requires 220 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the Vega Frontier and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the GTX 1070. The Vega Frontier requires 55 Watts more than the GTX 1070 to run. The difference is significant enough that the Vega Frontier may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 1070.
| Core Speed | 1600 MHz | vs |  | 1607 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | | 1797 MHz | |
| Architecture | Vega 10 XT | Pascal P104-200-A1 | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs | - | ||
| Driver Support | - | vs | Great | ||
| Release Date | 05 Jun 2017 |  | vs | 10 Jun 2016 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 10
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10
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| 1600x900 | 10
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10
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| 1920x1080 | 10
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10
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| 2560x1440 | 9.6
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vs | 9.2
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| 3840x2160 | 7.6
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vs | 7.2
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| Memory | 16384 MB | | vs | 8192 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 500 MHz | vs | | 2002 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 2048 Bit | | vs | 256 Bit | |
| Memory Type | HBM-2 | | vs | GDDR5 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256GB/sec | | vs | | 256.3GB/sec |
| L2 Cache | 0 KB | vs | |
2048 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | yes | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 4096 | | vs | 1920 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 100% | | vs | | 100% |
| Technology | 14nm | | vs | 16nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 256 | | vs | 120 | |
| Texture Rate | 409.6 GTexel/s | | vs | 192.8 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | 64 | | vs | | 64 |
| Pixel Rate | 102.4 GPixel/s | vs | | 102.8 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 7680x4320 | | vs | | 7680x4320 |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DisplayPort Connections | 4 | | vs | 3 | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 275 Watts | vs | | 220 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | 600 Watts & 42 Amps | vs | | 500 Watts & 33 Amps | |
| DirectX | 12 | vs | | 12.1 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | | 5.0 |
| Open GL | 4.4 | vs | | 4.5 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 16 GB | | vs | | 16 GB |
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 3840x2160 | | vs | 2560x1600 | |
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| Mini Review | Overview Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB is a Prosumer Graphics Card based on the Fourth (4.0) Revision of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture. Architecture The Vega 10 XT GPU offers support for HBM-2 Memory, DirectX 12.0 and Open GL 4.5. Vega 10 XT is the Full Variant of the GPU with 64 Compute Units activated, offering 4096 Shader Processing Units, 256 TMUs and 64 ROPs. GPU The Central Unit is clocked at 1600MHz. Memory: Speed The GPU is equipped with stacked HBM2 Memory and accesses the Frame Buffer through a 2048-bit memory interface. Memory: Frame Buffer The GPU can fill up a Memory Pool of up to 16GB. Under most circumstances, this only proves useful in certain 3D Games whose Settings Require Large Amounts of Memory. The Vega 10 GPU itself is aimed for 4K Gaming. The 16GB HBM2 framebuffer should be enough to prevent it bottlenecking performance in any AAA title at 4K. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 275W, it requires at least a 600W PSU with two available 8-pin connectors. Performance Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB is equal to the GeForce GTX 1080 in terms of gaming performance. However, it is primarily designed as a workstation graphics card and is not great value for money as a gaming GPU. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is available in two versions - air cooled and the more expensive water-cooled. Specs are otherwise identical. System Suggestions Radeon RX Vega Nova 16GB HBM2 is best suited for resolutions up to and including 3840 x2160 (4K). We recommend a Very Strong Processor and at least 16GB of RAM for Optimal Performance. | Overview The GTX 1070 AMP! is a Special Edition GTX 1070 high end graphics card by Zotac based on the Nvidia Pascal Architecture. Architecture It equips a GPU Codenamed P104-200-A1, which is a first gen Pascal GPU and has 15 SM activated, offering 1920 shader processing units, 120 TMUs and 64 ROPs. GPU The AMP! central unit runs at 1607MHz and goes up to 1797MHz, under the Boost Mode, higher than the reference card. Memory The GPU accesses a 8GB frame buffer of Fast GDDR5, through a 256-bit memory interface, while the Memory Clock Operates at 2002MHz. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 200W, it requires at least a 500W PSU with one available 8-pin connector. Performance The AMP! Extreme GTX 1070 by Zotac has a high end performance rating. It can meet 2016 AAA system requirements comfortably, gaming at high graphics settings across all games. This GPU will deliver strong frame rates at 1080p on any game at high graphics levels. System Suggestions This graphics card benchmark performance is best suited to resolutions up to and including 2560x1600. We recommend a High-End Processor and 16GB of RAM for optimal performance. | |||
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