NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 288.88

$ 590.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

86% significantly better overall score

1335 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

31 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

20 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

102% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2160 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

200.67 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13824 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8636 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17483 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17236 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

9056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18039 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19070 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1046 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

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

Identical

224.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

39% slightly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

124% significantly higher pixel rate

34.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

138.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

49% significantly better floating point performance

3.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

33% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

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

241st 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 770 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the GeForce GTX 770 in gaming performance.

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 770 at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce GTX 770.