NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 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

10078 points

162% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

217 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

153 FPS

95 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

153 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

115 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

14639 points

152% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

3056.90 points

469% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

176681 points

387% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

145322 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

132328 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

145114 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

134471 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1350 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1545 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

11 GiB

83% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

9% slightly larger memory bus width

352 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

616 GB/s

83% significantly 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

136 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

420.2 Gigatexels/s

121% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

13.45 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

4352

54% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

272

54% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

9% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

37th 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 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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