NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 373.40 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

301% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

137% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

184.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

3% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

183% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

89% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

52% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

306th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 670 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the GeForce GTX 670 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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 GTX 980 also 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the GeForce GTX 670.