GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G
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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.94 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 9.91 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G has 1920 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.72 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.61 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip GP104-200-A1
Pascal Architecture Pascal
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 15
2560 Shader 1920
64 Render Output Units 64
160 Texture Units 120
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.300 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR5
1.300 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 GHz
10.4 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
332 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has a turbo clock of 1.936 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G is 1.721 GHz.

1.759 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.936 GHz Boost Clock 1.721 GHz
1.90 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.68 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G has 2 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 GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

180 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G are cooled with a Water cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
0 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G 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 v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G is 25 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G is 25 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

266 mm Length 169 mm
121 mm Height 131 mm
25 mm Width 37 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming WATERFORCE WB 8G was released in Q2/2016.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX 8G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

GV-N1080XTREME WB-8GD Part-no GV-N1070IX-8GD
Q2/2016 Release date Q2/2016
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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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