NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1770MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +258%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

2816

Shading Units

6144

176

TMUs

192

96

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

6.8

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