GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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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 Ti		19808 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 2688 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 28% faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (about 39%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68264 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6848 (7%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.