NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1683MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +35%

8.186 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +18%

6814

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

Blender

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +23%

673

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

544

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

128

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +3%

133

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +29%

31

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +35%

61

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +30%

98

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

68

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +5%

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

72

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +2%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +26%

152

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2017

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

19

SM Count

-

2432

Shading Units

2816

152

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

96

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

255.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

127.9 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.186 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

255.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM200

GP104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

601 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

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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