Gainward GeForce GTX 1070
vs
GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 has 1920 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.68 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 6.46 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.43 TFLOPS.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 15 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 has a turbo clock of 1.683 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition is 1.830 GHz.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 89 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 was released in Q2/2016.

The GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 SG Edition published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.