NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

4905 points

27% slightly better overall score

3839 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

19520 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

38% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

7% slightly higher pixel rate

103.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

46% significantly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

2816

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

176

10% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly 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 slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 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 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.