NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

41 %

7% slightly better overall score

38 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

73 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

69 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

53 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

50 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and the GeForce GTX 980 Ti? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6797

17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5798

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

633.86

20% slightly higher Blender score

526.69

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

50088

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

19520

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

19520

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44885

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33578

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58447

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49657

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

56% significantly 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

180 W

38% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

103.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS

35% slightly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432

2816

15% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

176

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

58th of 363

64th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2017

June 2015

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 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.