NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

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$ 365.00

$ 514.85 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

96% significantly better overall score

2494 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

36 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

72% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4376 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41306 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

15163 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

165 W

9% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

77.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

155.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

78% significantly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs GeForce GTX 980 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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