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