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
13092 points
241% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
305 FPS
230 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
156 FPS
97 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
227 FPS
176 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
124 FPS
77 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
6174.82 points
1050% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
188870 points
330% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

96
20% slightly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
28th of 586

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
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.

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

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