NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1733MHz vs 1683MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +37%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1920

160

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GP104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

16 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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