NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

11608 points

202% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

281 FPS

205 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

141 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

200 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

111 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

17631 points

204% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

4821.52 points

798% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

206390 points

469% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

181771 points

354% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

126138 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

173309 points

295% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

158661 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1440 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1710 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

10 GiB

66% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

320 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

28% slightly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

58% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

145% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

391% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

8704

209% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

272

54% significantly 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

32nd 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

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 3080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 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 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.