NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 1952.15 significantly less expensive

$ 2832.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

23% slightly better overall score

2012 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

1534.25 points

317% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

70456 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

61102 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

54040 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

62696 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

58257 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

945 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

80 W

106% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

208th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs Quadro RTX 3000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the Quadro RTX 3000 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro RTX 3000 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 over the Quadro RTX 3000.