NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 879.85
$ 399.99
$ 479.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points
8910 points
257% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
215 FPS
163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
103 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
152 FPS
116 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
83 FPS
50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
3833.53 points
943% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
130295 points
276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
123771 points
224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz
2310 MHz
105% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz
2535 MHz
108% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
8 GiB
100% significantly more memory

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
160 W
3% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s
121.7 Gigapixels/s
56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s
344.8 Gigatexels/s
121% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS
22.06 TFLOPS
342% 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
136
6% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
33% slightly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
44th 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
12.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti specs and performance

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

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.

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