NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 459.00

$ 420.85 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4293 points

72% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6804 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

631.34 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

50088 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56994 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61006 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

165 W

9% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

77.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS

64% significantly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432

18% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

18% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

119th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti over the GeForce GTX 980.