NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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
Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1710MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+405%
30.64 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+222%
18647
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+235%
9411
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+918%
5543
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
133
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+318%
556
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
24
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+266%
88
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
45
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+235%
151
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
75
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+154%
191
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
72
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+30%
94
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
74
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+91%
142
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
120
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+43%
172
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Jan 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
1260 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
70
2816
Shading Units
8960
176
TMUs
280
96
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
RT Cores
70
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
350W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GA102
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
628 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
