NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

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

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 333.75

$ 546.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

2754 points

10% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

57 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

44 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

39 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

35 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

545.79 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

33701 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

18723 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

39047 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

53345 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

18723 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

41166 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

49052 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1089 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

104.5 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

209.1 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

6.69 TFLOPS

34% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3072

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

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

177th of 586

163rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2015 March

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 TITAN X comparison

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

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN X 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX TITAN X over the GeForce GTX 980.