NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 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

7102 points

84% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

161 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

97 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

114 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

73 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

11016 points

90% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

2341.39 points

336% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

120612 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

105930 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

87178 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

112025 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

107797 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1515 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1710 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

Identical

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

109.4 Gigapixels/s

5% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

314.6 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

2944

4% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

184

4% 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

127th of 586

67th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2018 September

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 2080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 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, both the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GeForce RTX 2080 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.