GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce 8800 GS

GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce 8800 GS
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2008
GeForce 8800 GS

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8800 GS
GPU NameGP104 (GP104-200-A1)vsG92 (G92-150-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs65 nm
Die Size314 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors7,200 millionvs754 million
Shaders1920vs96
Compute Units15vs6
Core clock1506 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs64vs12
TMUs120vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1070GeForce 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 1070GeForce 8800 GS
TDP150 wattsvs105 watts
Release Date10 Jun 2016vs31 Jan 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    96.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    6.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    180.70 GT/s
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    26.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1070
    5783.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 8800 GS
    264.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better