NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 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

12174 points

217% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

289 FPS

213 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

141 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

206 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

114 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

50% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

5402.96 points

906% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

168368 points

283% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

158623 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2190 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2430 MHz

125% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

360 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

20% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

88% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

187% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

474% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

7168

154% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

224

27% slightly more texture mapping units

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 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.