Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 vs. 1080 comparison 2016: Key difference between Pascal GPUs and which to buy
Nvidia recently astonished the tech world with the introduction of its new generation of Pascal-based graphics processing units (GPU). Last month, the powerful GeForce GTX 1080 made a big splash and it's time for its counterpart 1070, to do the same.
Although both cards are Pascal-based, they have key differences as well. This made the former far more expensive than the latter, which is, by the way, arriving tomorrow, June 10.
Both products are potent enough for the tasks they were tailored to do, although those who do not want to break the bank but still enjoy substantial amount of desktop power will have to go for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070.
Priced at only $380, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, like the GTX 1080 (priced at $ 600), fits in 7.2 million transistors in its 314 mm-square die. The manufacturing process of both the Nvidia cards uses a 16 nm FinFET processor.
The last-generation Nvidia cards had a much bigger die for a far smaller number of transistors based on a 28 mm processor. With these GeForce Pascal GPUs, Nvidia definitely makes perfect sense of "less is more."
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080 both offer 8 GB memory but the one in the latter is much more premium since it is bumped up to GRRD5X while the former just has GRRD5.
This allows the memory bandwidth of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 to reach 320 GB per second of memory bandwidth and 8.9 teraflops of floating point performance. The GeForce GTX 1070 clocks in at 256 GB per second of memory and 6.46 teraflops, impressive for a GPU under $400.
The GeForce GTX 1070 packs 1,920 CUDA cores carved up into 15 streaming multiprocessors. Its big brother boasts 2,560 CUDA cores distributed into 20 streaming. The core on the GTX 1080 is clocked to 1,607 MHz while the GTX 1070 is not too far behind with an impressive 1,506 MHz.
Both these Nvidia Pascal GeForce GTX cards offer Virtual Reality (VR) support among other exciting features. Nvidia has also announced that the GTX 1070 is also game-ready for Electronic Arts' upcoming title "Mirror's Edge Catalyst."
Gamers should be able to play the open-world game at 60 frames per second (60 fps) at a 2560 x 1440 resolution. Naturally, the same applies with the GeForce GTX 1080.
Laptop versions of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 are expected to come out this August.
