GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1665MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+167%
16200
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6060
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+111%
12223
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+111%
5941
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+108%
50
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+100%
90
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+84%
138
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
75
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
66
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+9%
72
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+37%
102
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+29%
155
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
120
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1076 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
336.6GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
2816
152
TMUs
176
80
ROPs
96
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.3 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
189.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.060 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
189.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GM200
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GM200-310-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
8 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
