NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Benchmark and Specs

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU benchmark, specs and release date - 6 GB NVIDIA Graphics card rating. How good is the GeForce GTX 980 Ti for gaming?

Benchmark Score

38 %
Good score from 7 samples
Medium uncertainty
Performance
Good
Ranking
68th of 549
Popularity
73rd of 549
Samples
7 benchmarks

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GPU Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
109 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
85 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
65 %
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
51 %
AMD Radeon RX 5700
43 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
41 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
38 %

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks. All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution.

Flux Core

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

152 FPS average
111 FPS 10% low
104 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

120 FPS average
118 FPS 10% low
115 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

104 FPS average
84 FPS 10% low
82 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS average
92 FPS 10% low
89 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

3DMark Graphics

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

5,798
Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

527
Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

Geekbench 5 (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

36,268
Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Geekbench 5 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

19,520
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

40,025
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

54,616
Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Geekbench 6 (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

19,520
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

33,812
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

52,856

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Specifications

Core Clock 1076 MHz
Boost Clock 1076 MHz
Memory Type GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GiB
Bus Width 384 bit
Memory Bandwidth 328.71 GB/s
TDP 250 W
Floating Point Performance 6.06 TFLOP/s
Release Date 2015-06-02
PCIe Revision 3
DirectX Support 12
OpenGL Support 4.5
Pixel Rate 103.3 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate 189.4 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units 2816
Texture Mapping Units 176
Render Output Processors 96

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is an NVIDIA GPU that was released in June 2015. This GPU is good at gaming with a score of 38% in our PC benchmark.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 6 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 328 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 384 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU core runs at a frequency of 1076 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1076 MHz. A clock speed is the frequency at which the GPU updates. A higher speed means more processing can happen per cycle. This is useful only when comparing cards of the same generation, as other architectures may process more or less per clock.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports up to DirectX 12. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. Higher level APIs such as DirectX 12 give more control to the game developer and can allow them to improve the graphics and performance.

This chip has a Thermal Design Power of 250W: the total amount of waste heat generated. A card that runs hotter will need better cooling and will draw more power from the wall.

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