NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 2060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1680MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +6%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +30%

7486

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

24

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +20%

54

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +8%

81

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060

51

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +41%

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060

66

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +12%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +21%

146

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 2060

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

2816

120

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

96

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GM200

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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