NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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
5925 points
54% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
116 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
80 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
112 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
61 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
3522.98 points
556% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
104383 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
98514 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
1455 MHz
35% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s
384 GB/s
14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
45 W
455% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s
47% significantly higher pixel rate
69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
25% slightly higher texture rate
151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816
3328
18% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176
69% significantly more texture mapping units
104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
100% significantly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
84th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

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 5060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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