NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1770MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 +258%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

2816

192

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

96

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM200

GA102-150-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

601 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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