GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 180W)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1733MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+126%
8873
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
20
1664
Shading Units
2560
104
TMUs
160
56
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
180W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP104
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
