NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

62% significantly better overall score

3839 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

83% significantly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

384 Bit

9% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

43% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336.6 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

Identical

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

103.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

87% significantly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

87% significantly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

27% slightly more shading units

2816

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

27% slightly more texture mapping units

176

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

9% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2015 June

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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and the GeForce GTX 980 Ti have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.