NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 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

5387 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

124 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

70 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

84 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

56 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

8047 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

1574.05 points

193% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

104025 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

87150 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

65188 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

90092 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

82332 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1095 MHz

1% slightly 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

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

90 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

47% significantly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

201.5 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

6.45 TFLOPS

6% slightly 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

94th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2019 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 2080 Max-Q comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a significantly 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.