NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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

4831 points

25% slightly better overall score

3839 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

76 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

58 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5794 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

536.77 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

78091 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

36268 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

70754 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40025 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60775 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54616 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43854 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

47793 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

Identical

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

0.18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

56% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

189.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

6% slightly better floating point performance

6.06 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2816

46% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

176

46% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2060 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.