NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

6GB GDDR5

Memory

2816

Cores

336.6 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

N/A Jun 2015 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

$649 • Jun 2015

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6GB GDDR5 250W N/A Jun 2015

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory Size	8 GB	6 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	150 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1076 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	336.6 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	1920	2816
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	120	176
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	256.3 GTexel/s	336.6 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.463 GFLOPS	6.06 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	3.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	601 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	8000 Million
Required PSU	450 W	600 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

6010 (+3%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

53429 (+7%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

49950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

75.4 FPS (+3%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

73.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

13504

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

13771 (+2%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+18%)

AVG 186 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 158 FPS

MIN 144 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+17%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 116 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+14%)

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+0%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+0%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+3%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+2%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+14%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+15%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+3%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+8%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1070 (+9%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+13%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+0%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+0%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+0%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070 (+0%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 Ti (+10%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+12%)

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+10%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1070 (+8%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

+3.8%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti