NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop, 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
4988 points
29% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
125 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
63 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
86 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
48 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
3130.63 points
483% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points
141168 points
289% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points
119528 points
198% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points
82032 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
106421 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
100291 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz
17% slightly higher core clock speed
915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
1410 MHz
31% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
115 W
117% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s
112.8 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
248.2 Gigatexels/s
31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS
15.88 TFLOPS
162% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
5632
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
Identical
176

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
20% slightly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
101st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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