GTX 980 ti or GTX 1070?

mmitchell_houston

My top dollar is about $500. So, should I opt for this:   EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti CLASSIFIED GAMING ACX 2.0+ P/N: 06G-P4-4998-KR

or one of these?

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0   P/N: 08G-P4-6173-KR

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0  P/N: 08G-P4-6276-KR

Or something else entirely?

 

 

 

ZKuro

Well, I have an MSI 1070 Gaming X, and the only downside, is that still, doesn't work with Iray. The new SDK 2016.2, finally adds Pascal support, but, we still need the drivers, and eventhough that the technology should be easy to implement on DS, we need, betas, tests... and finally the official launch, so if you want to render with Iray, you'd have to wait, maybe a month, maybe three.

Aside from that, and without being able to compare the rendering speed on Iray for the 1070, is better than the 980ti on everything, and if not better, equal. The 980ti has 2816 cuda cores, but at without OC (don't know how high can it get) at a boost clock of 1076 each core. The 1070 has 1920 cuda cores, but at 1683 boost clock speed, so as I've read somewhere, the speed of the cuda cores, should make for the lower number.

Another thing, this cards (the 1070/1080) can OC like a beast, I have mine, on a boost of 2076 from and already OC of 1790, and the memory at 9,47gz. The EVGA should go as high, and for what I've find searching for my 1070, is that the FTW is a better choice, and looking at it myself, the fact that the SC just have a 8pin... is a no no, that can't work as high as the FTW or my Gaming X. The FTW has a 8+8pin connection, so,  it measn that it can get more juice, and overclock a lot better that the SC only (as you can see, with the 8+8 connection, the FTW can get as high as 215w, while the SC, just the official 150).

Sooo, after all this, if you can stay a few, maybe months without GPU rendering on Iray, go for the 1070, and, the FTW, not the SC.

mmitchell_houston

Thanks for the tip. I decided to go for the 1070.

nicstt

zkuro said:

Well, I have an MSI 1070 Gaming X, and the only downside, is that still, doesn't work with Iray. The new SDK 2016.2, finally adds Pascal support, but, we still need the drivers, and eventhough that the technology should be easy to implement on DS, we need, betas, tests... and finally the official launch, so if you want to render with Iray, you'd have to wait, maybe a month, maybe three.

Aside from that, and without being able to compare the rendering speed on Iray for the 1070, is better than the 980ti on everything, and if not better, equal. The 980ti has 2816 cuda cores, but at without OC (don't know how high can it get) at a boost clock of 1076 each core. The 1070 has 1920 cuda cores, but at 1683 boost clock speed, so as I've read somewhere, the speed of the cuda cores, should make for the lower number.

Another thing, this cards (the 1070/1080) can OC like a beast, I have mine, on a boost of 2076 from and already OC of 1790, and the memory at 9,47gz. The EVGA should go as high, and for what I've find searching for my 1070, is that the FTW is a better choice, and looking at it myself, the fact that the SC just have a 8pin... is a no no, that can't work as high as the FTW or my Gaming X. The FTW has a 8+8pin connection, so,  it measn that it can get more juice, and overclock a lot better that the SC only (as you can see, with the 8+8 connection, the FTW can get as high as 215w, while the SC, just the official 150).

Sooo, after all this, if you can stay a few, maybe months without GPU rendering on Iray, go for the 1070, and, the FTW, not the SC.

Don't compare CUDA cores from different generations; it isn't a reliable method.

ZKuro

mmitchell_houston said:

Thanks for the tip. I decided to go for the 1070.

You're wellcome

 

nicstt said:

Don't compare CUDA cores from different generations; it isn't a reliable method.

I compared them, and still do until I can check it live, as this has been stated this way on any site I searched for the lesser CUDA cores on Pascal cards. I've only found so far that.

That being said, what you say, also makes perfectly sense. They are less but much faster, so fast, that in theory makes for the difference on cores, ok, but indeed, as you've said,  they are different cards, from two different architectures.

Let's see if what they've said now, about expecting our favorite programs to start giving support to 10X cards in late September, is true.