MSI GeForce GTX 1070 SEA HAWK X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Since both cards have the same number of ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines), and the GeForce GTX 1070 SEA HAWK X is clocked higher, it also has higher pixel fillrate. Better maximum pixel fill rate allows more pixels to be drawn on screen per second, which results in increased graphics card performance, unless there are bottlenecks in other areas, such as texture fillrate, CPU speed or available memory bandwidth.

Pixel fill rate was a critical factor years ago, but not so much these days. Texture fill rate has more significance in modern games. Two factors, that affect this parameter, are graphics frequency and the number of TMUs. The GeForce GTX 1070 SEA HAWK X has an edge here, because it runs at higher rate, and both graphics cards have identical number of Texture Mapping Units. Better maximum texture fill rate allows the GPU to map more textures and/or utilize more complex 3D effects for each textured picture element, which improves visual appearance of games and generated images.

Maximum Single Precision performance illustrates how many single-precision floating point operations the graphics card can execute per second. The performance is expressed in billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second, or GFLOPS. As a rule, the more stream processors or CUDA cores the graphics card has, and the the faster they operate at, the higher Single Precision performance will be. These two GPUs have the same maximum single-precision performance.

Similar to Single Precision performance, Double Precision one also shows the maximum number of floating-point operations, executed by stream processors or CUDA cores, but it refers to double precision (64-bit) operations. Both graphics cards have the same performance.

To speed up processing, the GPUs store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the GPU to run at higher display resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. The bandwidth is dependent on several components, like memory type, speed, and memory interface width. Specifically, higher memory bandwidth of the GeForce GTX 1070 SEA HAWK X card is due to higher memory clock.