NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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

33119 points

762% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

787 FPS

711 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

382 FPS

324 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

567 FPS

515 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

318 FPS

271 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

9236 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

11723.75 points

2084% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

318192 points

625% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

273214 points

471% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2235 MHz

107% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2520 MHz

134% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

24 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

1010 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

79% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

368% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

581% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1262% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

16384

481% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

512

190% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2022 October

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 4090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.