NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1670MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +76%

10.69 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1557 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

528.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

25

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3200

Shading Units

2816

200

TMUs

176

80

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

133.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

334.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

167.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.69 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

334.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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