Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5
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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 (GCN 4) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Pascal) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 has the Polaris 20 XL graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GP104-200-A1, which comes from the Pascal architecture.

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 7.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is 8.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.002 GHz.

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 180 W.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 150 W.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 570 8GD5 has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition came on the market in Q2/2016 and will have a structure width of 16 nanometers manufactured.