GeForce GTX 970 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which features clock speeds of 1480 MHz on the GPU, and 1376 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 88 Rasterization Operator 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 1080 Ti		27629 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 16762 (154%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 970		262 Sol/s
	Difference: 448 (171%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be 121% faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 271616 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (approximately 204%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 222320 (204%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (approximately 94%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 970, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63040 (94%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.