NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 633.11

$ 246.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

10078 points

304% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

217 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

153 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

153 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

115 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

14639 points

234% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3056.90 points

732% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

176681 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

145322 points

334% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

132328 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

145114 points

319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

134471 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1350 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1545 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

616 GB/s

174% 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

136 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

420.2 Gigatexels/s

170% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

13.45 TFLOPS

170% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

4352

112% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

272

112% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

37th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2018 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 2080 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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 RTX 2080 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.