NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 566.99

$ 312.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

13240 points

430% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

310 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

156 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

229 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

125 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

5256 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

6174.82 points

1580% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

188870 points

445% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

181089 points

374% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

2325 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2512 MHz

106% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

672 GB/s

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

201 Gigapixels/s

158% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

482.3 Gigatexels/s

209% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

6144

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

178th of 597

27th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 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 significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5070 at 250 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 5070 is better than the GeForce GTX 980.