NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 670.14 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

14000 points

461% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

331 FPS

279 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

169 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

240 FPS

204 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

134 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

19931 points

355% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

5820.93 points

1484% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

238123 points

697% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

204921 points

512% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

138859 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

194465 points

461% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

179816 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1400 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1695 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

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

936.2 GB/s

317% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

112% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

143% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

257% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

614% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

10496

412% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

328

156% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 590

24th of 590

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 3090 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 3090 at 350 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 3090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.