NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 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

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

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

161% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1673 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

133% significantly higher Blender score

157.20 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

10683 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6570 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

13578 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12985 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

11467 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14136 points

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

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

178th of 596

267th of 596

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

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 760 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 760 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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 GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 760 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 760.