NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points
142% significantly better overall score
1029 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
23 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points
161% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1673 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
133% significantly higher Blender score
157.20 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points
179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
10683 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
6570 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
13578 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points
218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
12985 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
11467 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
14136 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
14394 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz
17% slightly higher boost clock speed
1032 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
214% significantly higher pixel rate
24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate
99.07 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS
109% significantly better floating point performance
2.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
77% significantly more shading units
1152

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
33% slightly more texture mapping units
96

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 592
265th of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2016 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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