NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA 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 GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +167%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +113%

12265

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +108%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +100%

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +84%

138

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +9%

72

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +37%

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +29%

155

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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

1410 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

2816

Shading Units

4864

176

TMUs

152

96

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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