NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +769%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +446%

19794

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +513%

92

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +410%

153

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +397%

199

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +138%

100

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +240%

150

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +89%

186

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

80

SM Count

-

10240

Shading Units

1664

320

TMUs

104

112

ROPs

56

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

148W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GA102

GPU Name

GM204

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

628 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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