NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 134% (2520MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +794%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

2816

Shading Units

10752

176

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

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Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 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 2.1a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GB203

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

601 mm²

Die Size

377 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

10.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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