GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 1054 (6%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
	Difference: 11 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be a bit (more or less 3%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4720 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 384 (0%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.