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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 1070 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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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 | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 9.6 | 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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| Better PassMark score | 11,028 | vs | 8,563 | Around 30% better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly more memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 4,096 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Significantly better floating-point performance | 5,783 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 65% better floating-point performance | |||
| Much better manhattan score | 26,833.24 | vs | 3,715.92 | Around 7.2x better manhattan score | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 96.4 GPixel/s | vs | 58.8 GPixel/s | Around 65% higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly higher texture rate | 180.7 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 8,008 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,683 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | Around 45% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 256.3 GB/s | vs | 224.4 GB/s | Around 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 6,724 | vs | 4,375 | Around 55% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Better ocean surface simulation score | 1,727.43 frames/s | vs | 1,225.93 frames/s | More than 40% better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 87.79 | vs | 72.7 | More than 20% better fire strike factor 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 thief framerate | 88.5 | vs | 75 | Around 20% higher thief framerate | |||
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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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