NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 399.00

$ 480.85 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

150% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

126% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

134% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

115% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

78% significantly higher pixel rate

77.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

127% significantly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

127% significantly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

75% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

75% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 980.