NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 77% (1733MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +236%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +313%

7536

GeForce GTX 670

1824

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1344

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GK104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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