NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 130% (2475MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+381%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
46
2816
Shading Units
5888
176
TMUs
184
96
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
200W
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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
AD104
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
