Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 1070
8192 Mb GDDR5
Released 10 Jun 2016
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
6144 Mb GDDR5
Released 28 May 2014
DESKTOP
Summary
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 1070112%
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070
- 12% higher gaming performance.
- 225 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 the 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GTX 1070
The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX TITAN Z |
| GPU Name | GP104 (GP104-200-A1) | GK110B (GK110-430-B1) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 314 mm² | 561 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,200 million | 7,080 million |
| Shaders | 1920 | 2880 |
| Compute Units | 15 | 15 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | 705 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | 48 |
| TMUs | 120 | 240 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX TITAN Z |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | 384 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 8192 Mb | 6144 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX TITAN Z |
| TDP | 150 watts | 375 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Jun 2016 | 28 May 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 107096.40 GP/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z84.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 1070180.70 GT/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z338.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 1070256.30 GB/s
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z672.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 10705783.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z8122.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Game benchmarks
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- GeForce GTX 1070104
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z84
FPS (higher is better)
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- GeForce GTX 107078
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z71
FPS (higher is better)
Thief 2014
DX11, Very High Details
- GeForce GTX 107040
- GeForce GTX TITAN Z39
FPS (higher is better)