NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4GB GDDR5 165W N/A Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Memory Size	8 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	150 W	165 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1216 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	1920	2048
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	120	128
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	256.3 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.463 GFLOPS	4.981 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	450 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

5844 (+64%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

3574

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

53429 (+60%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

33492

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

75.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13504 (+22%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

11113

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+10%)

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 144 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+10%)

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+47%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+10%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 115 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+33%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+32%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+47%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+48%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+35%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+39%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+40%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+44%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+29%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+30%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 54 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+16%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+43%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+42%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+39%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce GTX 980

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Wins!

Based on 252 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

+34.2%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980