NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 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

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$ 320.00

$ 559.85 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

46% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

33% 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

150 W

10% slightly lower TDP

165 W

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

202 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% 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

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 980 benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 1070 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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