NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1777MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +110%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5758

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +28%

7406

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +369%

2596

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

133

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +112%

282

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +87%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +88%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +76%

132

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +13%

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +10%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +28%

154

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA106

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

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