Nvidia has released the hardware specifications for their upcoming GTX 1070 that is set to release alongside the GTX 1080 as the next generation graphics cards. Nvidia GTX 1070 is the cheaper sibling of GTX 1080 and from the detailed specifications, it appear to be a little behind GTX 1080, although with a much more attractive price. You can check out the full system specifications below and see how they compare against GTX 1080.

Architecture	Pascal 16nm FinFET	Pascal 16nm FinFET
GPU	GP104-400	GP104-200
Streaming Multiprocessors	20	15
CUDA Cores	2560	1920
TMUs	160	120
ROPs	64	64 (TBC)
FP32 Computing Power (Base Clock)	8.2 TFLOPs	5.8 TFLOPs
FP32 Computing Power (Boost Clock)	8.9 TFLOPs	6.5 TFLOPs
Memory Type	8GB GDDR5X	8GB GDDR5
Base Clock	1607 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1683 MHz
Memory Clock	1250 MHz	2000 MHz
Effective Memory Clock	10000 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	256 GB/s
TDP	180W	150W
Power Connectors	1x 8pin	1x 8pin
MSRP	$599 Base Price $699 FE	$379 Base Price $449 FE

While GTX 1070 won’t be out until June 10th, we should be getting benchmarks for it as the release date draws near. It should be interesting to compare the performance between both of these graphics card considering the price difference. Let us know what you think about these specifications in the comments below.

Posted: May 19, 2016 1:57 pm
Related Forum: PC Gaming Forum

Source: http://gearnuke.com/nvidia-gtx-1070-specifications-revealed-comparison-gtx-1080/