NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 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

1% slightly better overall score

3792 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

82 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

52 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

58 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

39 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

1340.13 points

149% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

36268 points

64172 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

68305 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

50239 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

68305 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

50377 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

1215 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

60 W

316% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

32% slightly higher pixel rate

77.76 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

46% significantly more shading units

1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

46% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

128th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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. Despite this, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.