NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 677.99

$ 201.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

5888 points

136% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

145 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

85 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

103 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

66 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

10586 points

141% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

2096.93 points

470% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points

117173 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

105171 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

73163 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

103585 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

93415 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1620 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

1815 MHz

49% 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

448 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

39% slightly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

116.2 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

348.5 Gigatexels/s

123% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

123% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3072

49% 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

85th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2018 August

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 5000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Quadro RTX 5000 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 Quadro RTX 5000 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 slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 5000 over the GeForce GTX 980.