NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1733MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +46%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5757

GeForce GTX 1080 +30%

7533

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

GeForce GTX 1080 +33%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

GeForce GTX 1080 +37%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce GTX 1080 +32%

99

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +28%

72

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce GTX 1080 +28%

154

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GP104

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 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 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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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