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GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 980

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 comes with a GPU clock speed of 1506 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1920 Stream Processors, 120 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 980, which has a clock frequency of 1126 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 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 18174 points
GeForce GTX 980 13552 points
Difference: 4622 (34%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070 436 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980 408 Sol/s
Difference: 28 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 165 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 224000 MB/sec
Difference: 38144 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be a lot (more or less 25%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 144128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 36592 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 should be a lot (about 34%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 980, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 72064 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 24320 (34%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 980
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 2016 September 2014
Code Name GP104-200 GM204-400
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1126 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 165 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 224000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 180720 Mtexels/sec 144128 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 96384 Mpixels/sec 72064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1920 2048
Texture Mapping Units 120 128
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7200 million 5200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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

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