GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 350W)
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
8576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
+769%
34100
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
+427%
19216
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
+477%
9720
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
+1852%
5956
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB
+732%
641
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1335 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
80
1664
Shading Units
10240
104
TMUs
320
56
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
320
-
RT Cores
80
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
186.5 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
350W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-225-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
