NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

37% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

126 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

61 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

88 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

48 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

8766 points

51% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

2317.27 points

331% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

99213 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

96416 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

74845 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

89510 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

86221 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1320 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1777 MHz

65% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

360 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

170 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

85.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

199 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

110% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

3584

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

57% significantly more texture mapping units

112

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

98th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 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 3060 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 also has a significantly 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 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.