NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 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

13240 points

244% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

310 FPS

234 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

156 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

229 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

125 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5256 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

6174.82 points

1050% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

188870 points

330% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

181089 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2325 MHz

116% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2512 MHz

133% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

672 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

Identical

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

482.3 Gigatexels/s

154% significantly higher texture rate

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

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 597

27th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GeForce RTX 5070 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.