NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Benchmark

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?

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GPU Benchmark Score

36 %

Good score from 6 samples
Medium uncertainty

Performance

Good

Ranking

66th of 531

Popularity

70th of 531

Samples

6 benchmarks

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.

hardwareDB Benchmark

All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution

Flux Core

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

147 FPS average

105 FPS 10% low

98 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

116 FPS average

115 FPS 10% low

113 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

99 FPS average

80 FPS 10% low

79 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

93 FPS average

88 FPS 10% low

86 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Geekbench (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

36,268

Geekbench (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

19,520

Geekbench (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

40,025

Geekbench (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

54,616

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

5,798

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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	108 %
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	36 %

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 36% 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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