NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1860MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +703%

40 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4330

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +409%

22054

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +483%

105

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +377%

167

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +238%

210

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +138%

143

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +201%

187

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +126%

226

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1560 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

10752

128

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GA102

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-350-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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