NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

3839 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

76 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

52 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

19520 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

54616 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

19520 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

39% slightly 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

150 W

66% significantly 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

202 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2816

46% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

176

46% significantly 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

134th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 June

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 Ti specs and performance

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

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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 980 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.