NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

8113 points

111% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

197 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

96 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

140 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

77 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

13651 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

3380.77 points

529% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

149734 points

312% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

135064 points

237% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

99979 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

128209 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

121057 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1500 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1725 MHz

60% 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

220 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

60% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

235% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

5888

109% significantly 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2020 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 3070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3070 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, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 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 3070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.