Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, which has 1920 shaders and 15 execution units.
Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip GP104-200-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Pascal
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 15
2304 Shader 1920
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 120
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 1.506 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.411 GHz Boost Clock 1.683 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 235 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has a TDP of 150 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

235 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 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 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 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

Dimensions

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 is 260 mm long, 135 mm high and 43 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

260 mm Length 267 mm
135 mm Height 111 mm
43 mm Width 38 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 was released in Q4/2017 at a price of 229 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 was introduced in Q2/2016 at a price of 379 $ (Reference).

11265-07 / 11265-31 Part-no --
Q4/2017 Release date Q2/2016
229 $ Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 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)

Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5
4 GB GDDR5
32 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
8 GB GDDR5
34 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5
4 GB GDDR5
61 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
8 GB GDDR5
65 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5 Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 4G G5
4 GB GDDR5
87 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
8 GB GDDR5
92 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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