NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1710MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +391%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +208%

17753

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5754

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +229%

79

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +208%

139

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +141%

181

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +27%

92

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +90%

141

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +43%

172

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

2816

272

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

96

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

250W

700 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

GA102-200-KD-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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