NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 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

1650 points

19480 points

1080% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

480 FPS

448 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

226 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

334 FPS

312 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

183 FPS

162 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2939 points

6585 points

124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

8733.11 points

3203% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

241464 points

884% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

217807 points

812% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

2025 MHz

95% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

2375 MHz

110% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

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

160.4 GB/s

678.4 GB/s

322% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

319% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

216% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

602% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

1304% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

10240

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

233% 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

231st of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs GeForce RTX 4080 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 RTX 4080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 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 4080 is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M.