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GeForce GTX 1070
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Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!MSI's GTX 970 Gaming is available online for $350, which is a $20 price premium for the overclock out of the box and the improved cooler.
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Released June, 2016
Generic GeForce GTX 1070
- 1.5 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
8.8 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (May, 2016)While the higher-end GTX 1080 wins out with brute specs including GDDR5X memory that's clocked at 10GHz, and while the GTX 1070 isn't as beefy as its big brother, it can swing at the same weight and size, beating nearly everything else we tested in most games, except for the GTX 1080.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 1070 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 8.8 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| GPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 vs the GeForce GTX 1070. | |||||||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,506 MHz | vs | 1,050 MHz | Around 45% higher clock speed | |||
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| Significantly more memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 4,096 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better PassMark score | 11,028 | vs | 8,563 | Around 30% better PassMark score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 5,783 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 65% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 96.4 GPixel/s | vs | 58.8 GPixel/s | Around 65% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 180.7 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,683 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | Around 45% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 8,008 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 256.3 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | Around 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly better ocean surface simulation score | 1,732.83 frames/s | vs | 1,203.9 frames/s | Around 45% better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 87.79 | vs | 72.7 | More than 20% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 6,724 | vs | 4,375 | Around 55% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| More render output processors | 64 | vs | 56 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,753 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| More shading units | 1,920 | vs | 1,664 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 120 | vs | 104 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher bioshock infinite framerate | 132.5 | vs | 112.8 | More than 15% higher bioshock infinite framerate | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 6,704.56 | vs | 3,358.68 | Around 2x better T-Rex score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 1070
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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