NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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

8845 points

130% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

210 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

104 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

151 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

83 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

14857 points

156% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

3754.04 points

599% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

165866 points

357% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

147200 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

104828 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

138062 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

131952 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1575 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1770 MHz

64% 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

608.3 GB/s

80% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

16% slightly lower TDP

290 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

169.9 Gigapixels/s

64% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

339.8 Gigatexels/s

79% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

258% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

6144

118% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

192

9% 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

45th 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

GDDR6X

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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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 GTX 980 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at 290 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.