NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 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 GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1582MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +87%

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +71%

9867

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +70%

41

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +64%

74

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +45%

109

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +6%

77

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +35%

100

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +30%

156

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

384bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

88

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

0 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

GM200

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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