NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points
3839 points
84% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS
76 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS
58 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS
52 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
47 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points
5794 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points
536.77 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
36268 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points
40025 points
0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points
54616 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points
43854 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points
47793 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz
28% slightly higher core clock speed
1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz
28% slightly higher boost clock speed
1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
33% slightly more memory
6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s
336.6 GB/s
31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W
177% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s
103.3 Gigapixels/s
17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s
189.4 Gigatexels/s
7% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS
6.06 TFLOPS
7% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
2816
37% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
176
37% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
96
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 590
127th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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