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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop

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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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

3130.63 points

483% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

141168 points

289% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

119528 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

82032 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

106421 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 597

102nd of 597

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

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.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.