MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G
vs
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G and the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and has 2432 texture shaders and 199 execution units.

MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G is based on AMD RX Vega 64, which has 4096 shaders and 64 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G GPU MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Based on AMD RX Vega 64
GP104-300-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XT
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
199 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
2432 Shader 4096
64 Render Output Units 64
152 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 0.945 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.9 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.607 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G is 1.247 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.247 GHz
1.683 GHz Boost Clock 1.546 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G has a TDP of 295 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

180 W TDP 295 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G is 279 mm long, 140 mm high and 37 mm wide.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G is 270 mm long, 110 mm high and 40 mm wide.

279 mm Length 270 mm
140 mm Height 110 mm
37 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
832 g Weight 1068 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G was released in Q4/2017 at a price of 449 $ (Reference).

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 499 $ (Reference).

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Q4/2017 Release date Q3/2017
449 $ (Reference) Launch Price 499 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G MSI GeForce GTX 1070 TI ARMOR 8G
8 GB GDDR5
111 fps (avg)
MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G
8 GB HBM2
128 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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