GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1080

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1080, which comes with clock speeds of 1607 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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		21942 points
GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
	Difference: 3768 (21%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
	Difference: 117 (27%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (approximately 42%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76400 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is a small bit (more or less 7%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6464 (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.