AMD Radeon RX 5700 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 5700 (Desktop)

Die AMD Radeon RX 5700 ist eine Desktop-GPU der oberen Mittelklasse und wird im 7nm Verfahren gefertigt. Der Grafikprozessor verfügt über 2.304 Shadereinheiten, sowie über 8 GB GDDR6-VRAM mit einem 256-Bit-Interface (7 GHz, 448 GB/s).

Features

RDNA dient als Basis für den Navi 10 getauften Grafikchip und löst damit die GCN-Architektur der älteren Grafikkarten ab. Als weltweit erste Grafikkarte unterstützt die Radeon RX-5700-Serie PCI Express 4.0. RIS (Radeon Image Sharpening) bietet den Nutzern die Möglichkeit einer detaillierteren Darstellung ohne großen Leistungsverlust. Mit der neuen Media Engine lassen sich nun Videos mit einer Auflösung von bis zu 8K dekodieren und die neue Display Engine unterstützt Bildschirme mit bis zu 8K bei 60Hz inklusive HDR oder 4K HDR mit 144Hz. 

Performance

Die Leistung der AMD Radeon RX 5700 ist mit einer Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060S vergleichbar. Im internen Duell kommt die AMD Radeon RX 5700 an die Leistung einer Radon RX Vega 64 heran. Mit der AMD Radeon RX 5700 lassen sich die meisten Spiele der Jahre 2018 und 2019 in 1440p und dem Ultra-Preset flüssig darstellen.

Leistungsaufnahme

Die Leistungsaufnahme der AMD Radeon RX 5700 wird vom Hersteller mit 180 Watt beziffert und liegt damit etwa auf dem Niveau einer AMD Radeon RX 580. Der Umstieg auf den neuen Fertigungsprozess und der neuen Architektur sorgt hier für eine deutliche Steigerung der Leitung bei gleichem Energiebedarf.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is an entry level graphics card for desktops based on the Pascal architecture. It uses the same GP107 chip as the GTX 1050 Ti, but with only 640 instead of 768 shaders. The chip is manufactured at Samsung in 14 nm (opposed to the 16 nm TSCM based Pascal chips of the 1060 and up). The performance and specs should be similar to the GTX 1050 laptop version, that will be released later (early 2017). Compared to the faster GTX 1050 Ti, the 1050 offers less shaders (640 instead of 768) and only 2 GB of GDDR5 (instead of the 4 GB of the 1050 Ti).

Gaming benchmarks by Nvidia state that the GTX 1050 is about 30% faster on average than the Radeon RX 460 with 2 GB VRAM. The 4 GB version of the RX 460 should be about 10% slower and the older GTX 950 should reach a similar performance level as the new GTX 1050. Therefore, the GTX 1050 should be ideal for 1080p gaming with high detail settings (but not max settings).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 is the second fastest Pascal based graphics card in mid May 2016. It comes in two variants, the desktop version (see here for the detail page) with 1920 shaders and the mobile variant with 2048 shaders and lower clock rates. Both cards are based on a cut down GP104 chip (like the GTX 1080) and are manufactured in 16 nm FinFET at TSMC.

Compared to the GTX1080, the GTX1070 features less CUDA cores (2048 versus 2560) that are clocked a bit lower (maximum Boost 1645 versus 1733). Instead of the new GDDR5X, the GTX 1070 uses slower GDDR5 graphics memory - but still 8 GB. The TDP is also reduced and rumored to be 10 Watts higher than the predecessor, the GTX 980M.

For thin and light laptops Nvidia offer a Max-Q called version of the GTX 1070 with lower TDP and also significantly lower performance. Sadly this variant im sold with the same GTX 1070 name, making it hard to judge the performance.

The performance depends on the cooling solution of the laptop. With a good fan system, the performance of the laptop version is on par with the desktop GTX 1070 (Founders Edition). Nvidia claims that partner solutions can be up to 10 percent slower however. In our benchmarks with various laptops the performance ranged from -5 to -14% slower performance compared to partner models of the GTX 1080 desktop models with slightly higher clocks.

On average the GTX 1070 is around 20 percent faster than the old mobile GeForce GTX 980 and therefore the second fastest mobile graphics card (non SLI). Therefore it is capable of WQHD and 4K gaming in high settings (see game benchmarks below).

The GP104 chip is manufactured in 16nm FinFET process at TSMC and offers a range of new features. DisplayPort 1.4 (ready), HDMI 2.0b, HDR, Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP), improved H.265 video en- and decoders (for PlayReady 3.0) are only some of the improvements. See our detailed Pascal architecture article for more details.

The power consumption of the GTX 1070 is specified with 115 Watt TGP according to Nvidia and therefore slightly above the old GeForce GTX 980M. This leads to rather big and clunky gaming laptops that use the GTX 1070. The later released Max-Q version of the GTX 1070 uses only 80 - 90 Watt TGP and is therefore better suited for thin and light laptops.