NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 819.99

$ 59.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

19137 points

667% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

428 FPS

376 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

223 FPS

183 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

324 FPS

288 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

180 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

6821 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

7588.31 points

1965% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

239264 points

591% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

228386 points

498% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

2295 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2452 MHz

101% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

896 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

81% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

235.4 Gigapixels/s

202% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

686.6 Gigatexels/s

341% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

8960

337% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

280

118% 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

178th of 596

11th of 596

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2025 February

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 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 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 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.