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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.8 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 May, 2016
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
- 1.6 GHz
- 8 GB GDDR5
8.5 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (Jul, 2016)Performance (overclocking, power)100%Quality (build, design, cooling)95%General Features (display outputs, etc)95%Bundle, Packaging & Software95%Value for Money95% Overall TweakTown Rating96% The Bottom Line: It's simple: ZOTAC has the fastest GeForce GTX 1080 on the market right now with its GeForce GTX 1080 AMP!
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 1080 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 | |
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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 | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,251 MHz | More than 40% higher memory clock speed | |||
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| Lower TDP | 148W | vs | 180W | Around 20% lower TDP | |||
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| Much higher clock speed | 1,607 MHz | vs | 1,050 MHz | Around 55% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better PassMark score | 11,994 | vs | 8,563 | More than 40% better PassMark score | |||
| Much better floating-point performance | 8,228 GFLOPS | vs | 3,494 GFLOPS | More than 2.2x better floating-point performance | |||
| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 10,008 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 45% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly more memory | 8,192 MB | vs | 4,096 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Much higher texture rate | 257.1 GTexel/s | vs | 109.2 GTexel/s | More than 2.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher pixel rate | 102.8 GPixel/s | vs | 58.8 GPixel/s | Around 75% higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly higher turbo clock speed | 1,733 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | More than 45% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 2,560 | vs | 1,664 | 896 more shading units | |||
| Much better PassMark direct compute score | 8,106 | vs | 4,375 | More than 85% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 160 | vs | 104 | 56 more texture mapping units | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 97.7 | vs | 72.7 | Around 35% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly higher metro: last light framerate | 131.6 | vs | 83.8 | More than 55% higher metro: last light framerate | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 3,778.59 | vs | 3,357.8 | Around 15% better T-Rex score | |||
| More render output processors | 64 | vs | 56 | 8 more render output processors | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 1080
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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