NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1665MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +462%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +244%

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +283%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +240%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +165%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +38%

100

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +102%

150

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +55%

186

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 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

80

2816

Shading Units

10240

176

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 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

GA102-225-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

6.6

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