NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
VS
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
VS
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

118
Place in performance rating
204
24.03
Value for money (0-100)
100.00
Pascal
Architecture
Polaris
GP104B
Code name
Ellesmere
Laptop
Type
Laptop
1 September 2016 (5 years ago)
Release date
4 August 2016 (5 years ago)
$389.99
Launch price (MSRP)
$549.99
$379 (1x MSRP)
Price now
$148 (0.3x MSRP)
36.94
Value for money
46.85
N17E-G2
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2048
Pipelines
2048
1506 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
1645 MHz
Boost Clock
1074 MHz
7,200 million
Transistor count
5,700 million
16 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
120 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
85 Watt
210.6
Texture fill rate
137.5
6,738 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,399 gflops
94 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
1920
CUDA cores
no data
2048
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1645 MHz
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
7,200 million
Number of transistors
5,700 million
120 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
85 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
large
Laptop size
large
+
SLI options
no data
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
8 GB/s
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
256 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
G-SYNC support
no data
+
Multi monitor support
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile is the additional functionality.

+
VR Ready
no data
+
Multi Monitor
no data
+
3D Vision
no data
3.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
Multi-Projection
no data
+
Ansel
no data
+
Virtual Reality
no data
+
ShadowWorks
no data
no data
FreeSync
+
no data
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.2.131
Vulkan
1.2.131
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
1.2
OpenCL
2.0

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile or AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 96 78 68 56 43 23
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 129 97.1 91.6 90 63.4 33.1
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 203 176 148 99 71 41
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 220 161 105 70.9 46.2 25.3
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 194 128 115 112 75.5 39
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

6.1% faster in synthetic tests

More memory bandwidth (256 GB/s vs 224.0 GB/s)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Cheaper ($148 (0.3x MSRP) vs $379 (1x MSRP))

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 16 nm)

Less power consumption (85 Watt vs 120 Watt)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile or AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile versus AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile