NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3839 points

18% slightly better overall score

3236 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

79 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

57 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

1333.84 points

148% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

66487 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

62154 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

52643 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

58669 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

55976 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1222 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1485 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

211% significantly higher pixel rate

33.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

128% significantly higher texture rate

82.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

5.30 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

10% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

120% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

144th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 May

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 3050 Ti Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop 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 3050 Ti Laptop also 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 GTX 980 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop.