NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1582MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +127%

11.34 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +128%

9873

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +127%

41

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +111%

74

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +75%

109

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +28%

77

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +61%

100

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +56%

156

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1481 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

352bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

88

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP102

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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