NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

3792 points

52% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

82 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

52 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

58 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

39 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

1340.13 points

264% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

64172 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

68305 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

50239 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

68305 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

50377 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

87% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

0.08% slightly higher boost clock speed

1215 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

60 W

175% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

0.08% slightly higher pixel rate

77.76 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

6% slightly more shading units

1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

128th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2019 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 980 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 980.