NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 320.00

$ 45.00 slightly less expensive

$ 365.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

4905 points

34% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

94 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

79 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

62 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

64 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1070 and the GeForce GTX 1080? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

7547 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

606.98 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

51531 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

23824 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

54640 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

66552 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

23824 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

60120 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

65170 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1607 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1733 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 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

320.3 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

180 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

110.9 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

277.3 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

8.87 TFLOPS

37% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

104th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.