NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 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

42789 points

1014% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

1019 FPS

944 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

503 FPS

445 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

740 FPS

688 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

425 FPS

378 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

14480 points

149% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

14992.38 points

2693% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

383325 points

774% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

380401 points

695% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

2017 MHz

87% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2407 MHz

123% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

32 GiB

433% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

512 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

129% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

310% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

21760

672% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

680

286% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2025 January

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 5090 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.