Does the 980Ti actually have the performance of a 1070?

[LebowskiBuschemi]

Now I know most of you are going to tell me to google this, but here's the thing, I keep hearing people saying it's "basically a 1070" when the performance difference between a 980Ti and a 1060 6GB is like 7-11 FPS at most. If you see a benchmark comparison video of a 1070 and a 1060, the performance difference is like 20+ fps. So, why exactly were people saying that the 980Ti is basically a 1070 when it came out?

[Shimejii]

980 ti is pretty much around a 1070 in performance when they were released. 1070 has had a few more optimizations since then, but overall a Reference to reference models, they are pretty much the same while 980ti draws a lot more power.  

[Firewrath9]

at the time, they were similar, but the 1070 has had more driver improvements. Also, the 980 Ti is better at overclocking, so after overclocked they are about even.

[xAcid9]

Most of them compare a reference 980 Ti.

Performance difference between reference 980 Ti vs aftermarket 980 Ti is much bigger compare to reference 1070 vs aftermarket 1070. 

 

This is aftermarket 1070 in BF4.

 

This is aftermarket 980 Ti in BF4

[Kisai]

6 hours ago, LebowskiBuschemi said:

Now I know most of you are going to tell me to google this, but here's the thing, I keep hearing people saying it's "basically a 1070" when the performance difference between a 980Ti and a 1060 6GB is like 7-11 FPS at most. If you see a benchmark comparison video of a 1070 and a 1060, the performance difference is like 20+ fps. So, why exactly were people saying that the 980Ti is basically a 1070 when it came out?

Performance scale for nVidia has historically been that the previous x80 part is equal to the current x70 part. But with that said, The Ti parts are not equivalent, as they're usually based on the next version of the die. This is simply how nVidia does it. That doesn't mean that games will scale linearly, because some of those performance numbers can only be achieved by using nVidia's own SDK's and games that actually utilize multiple cores. Games will simply top out at a certain point given certain hardware. So usually it's better to compare the same x70 to another x70 part first or x60 to x60. If you see a performance jump between the two, then moving down one to save money might be an option. Otherwise stay on the performance level if you're considering an upgrade. If you don't see a performance jump in the game you wish to play, then that game might not benefit from a better card.

 

[Froody129]

I own one. It's a beast, and usually they are great deals used. The 980ti lags behind on the stock cooler, which isn't really fit for a card that draws that much power. With a decent aftermarket cooler it performs loads better.