NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1178MHz vs 1076MHz)
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+54%
6.06 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+58%
5789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+66%
2807
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+78%
544
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+72%
133
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+60%
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+50%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+87%
75
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+71%
72
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+68%
74
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+22%
120
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1076 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
336.6GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
2816
104
TMUs
176
56
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.3 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
189.4 GTexel/s
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-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.060 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
189.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM200
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GM200-310-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
