GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 970
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
GeForce GTX 970
9932
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 970
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
September 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
2x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1050 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
1664
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
3,920 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1664
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
145 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
98 °C
Texture fill rate
277.3
109 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
224 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
VR Ready
+
-