GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G
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ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G has 2432 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.72 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.37 TFLOPS.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.43 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.86 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 199 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GP104-300-A1 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Pascal Architecture Maxwell 2.0
199 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
2432 Shader 2048
64 Render Output Units 64
152 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.002 GHz clocks.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.002 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G has a turbo clock of 1.721 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is 1.431 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.317 GHz
1.721 GHz Boost Clock 1.431 GHz
1.68 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

180 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

280 mm Length 297 mm
111 mm Height 152 mm
41 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G was released in Q4/2017.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

GV-N107TGAMING-8GD Part-no GOLD20TH-GTX980-P-4GD5
Q4/2017 Release date Q1/2015
449 $ (Reference) Launch Price 749 $
16 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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