NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1683MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +29%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce GTX 1070 +40%

6067

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce GTX 1070 +44%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce GTX 1070 +42%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1070 +24%

77

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +25%

60

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1070 +35%

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce GTX 1070 +48%

148

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

2048

Shading Units

1920

128

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.4

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