NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1665MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +225%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +170%

11685

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +172%

49

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +165%

93

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +108%

129

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +1%

61

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +59%

99

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +49%

149

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

2048

152

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

64

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM204

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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