NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 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 TiM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1410MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +173%

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 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

915 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2816

184

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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