GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 275

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 275
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 275

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

69 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 275 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 275

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 1070

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 275
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsGT200B (G200-105-B3)
Fab Process16 nmvs55 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders1920vs240
Compute Units15vs10
Core clock1506 MHzvs633 MHz
ROPs64vs28
TMUs120vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 275
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1134 MHz
2268 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce GTX 275
TDP150 wattsvs219 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs15 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    17.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    50.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 275
    127.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 275
    673.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better