NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, 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
5934 points
137% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
150 FPS
98 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
75 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
103 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
57 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
3004.43 points
717% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points
122041 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
111833 points
234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points
84673 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
102733 points
196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
96388 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz
1560 MHz
28% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
448 GB/s
99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W
115 W
43% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
60% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
60% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
220% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
5120
150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
160
25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
83rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 980.

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