NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 749.99

$ 129.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

11608 points

365% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

281 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

141 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

200 FPS

164 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

111 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

17631 points

302% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

4821.52 points

1212% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

206390 points

591% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

181771 points

443% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

126138 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

173309 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

158661 points

315% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1440 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1710 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

238% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

93% significantly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

198% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

497% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

8704

325% 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 3080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 RTX 3080 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, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce GTX 980.

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