NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 143% (2610MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +561%

40.09 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

553

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +1646%

9659

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

133

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +606%

939

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

7680

176

TMUs

240

96

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

AD104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

285W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 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

6.6

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