GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1080

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1080, which has core clock speeds of 1607 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1080		21942 points
GeForce GTX 1070		18174 points
	Difference: 3768 (21%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1080		553 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1070		436 Sol/s
	Difference: 117 (27%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1070		475 h/s
GeForce GTX 1080		475 h/s
	Difference: 0 (0%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1080 will be 25% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be much (about 42%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76400 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be a bit (approximately 7%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6464 (7%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.