NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1777MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +155%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce RTX 3060 +103%

8780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce RTX 3060 +144%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce RTX 3060 +128%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 3060 +87%

116

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +20%

60

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 3060 +32%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

133

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA106

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

276 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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