NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 10GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1683MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (440.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB +174%

10.77 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

305

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB +194%

897

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970

77

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB +68%

130

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 10 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1582 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

440.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

25

1664

Shading Units

3200

104

TMUs

200

56

ROPs

80

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

134.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

336.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

168.3 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.77 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

336.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP102-300-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

471 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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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