NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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
7890 points
105% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
185 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
95 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
132 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
75 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
3279.67 points
511% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points
138398 points
281% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points
125425 points
213% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points
91922 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
113801 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
103840 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz
1110 MHz
3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
1545 MHz
43% significantly 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
148.3 Gigapixels/s
43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
296.6 Gigatexels/s
56% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS
18.98 TFLOPS
213% 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

96
Identical
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
59th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2021 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 3080 Laptop specs and performance

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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