NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1670MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +172%

10.69 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1557 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

528.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

25

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

3200

104

TMUs

200

56

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

334.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

167.0 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.69 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

334.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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