GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    139%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080

39% higher gaming performance.
195 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN Z .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TITAN Z

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

The GeForce GTX 1080 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-400-A1)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders2560vs2880
Compute Units20vs15
Core clock1607 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs160vs240

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1080GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP180 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date27 May 2016vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    125
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    96
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    71

FPS (higher is better)

Thief 2014

DX11, Very High Details

  • GeForce GTX 1080
    52
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    39

FPS (higher is better)