NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1582MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +189%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +172%

9872

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +173%

41

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +146%

74

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +172%

109

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +83%

77

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +127%

100

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +59%

156

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Mar 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

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1664

224

TMUs

104

88

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GM204

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

148W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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