GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 970, which has a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 1664 SPUs, 104 Texture Address Units, and 64 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 Ti		19808 points
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 8941 (82%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (24%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38144 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a lot (more or less 124%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135064 (124%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 53%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 970, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35648 (53%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.