NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Mar 2017
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1481 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1582 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1376 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
11GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
352bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
484.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
3584
TMUs
104
224
ROPs
56
88
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
0 MB
SM Count
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
139.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
354.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
11.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
354.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
177.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GP102
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GP102-350-K1-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
11.8 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
471 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
—
OctaneBench
77
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.