NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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

3839 points

9% slightly better overall score

3514 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

75 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

52 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5621 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

1382.74 points

157% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

67657 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

61701 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51683 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

64897 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

59548 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1185 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

65 W

284% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

56.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

4.55 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

46% significantly more shading units

1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

46% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.