GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs GeForce 8800 GS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
GeForce 8800 GS
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2008
GeForce 8800 GS

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8800 GS

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 8800 GS
GPU NameGP104 ()vsG92 (G92-150-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs754 million
Shaders2048vs96
Compute Units16vs6
Core clock1442 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs64vs12
TMUs128vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 8800 GS
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs384 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 8800 GS
TDP120 wattsvs105 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs31 Jan 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    92.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    6.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    184.60 GT/s
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    26.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    256.30 GB/s
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    38.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    5906.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    264.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better