NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 339.79

$ 540.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

6694 points

168% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

161 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

77 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

113 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

61 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

3124.65 points

750% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

101567 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

99687 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1925 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2075 MHz

70% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

21% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

145% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

390% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

5888

187% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

184

43% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2023 May

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 4060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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 4060 also has a significantly 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 slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 4060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.