NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1545MHz vs 1076MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +121%

13.45 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

5757

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +153%

14593

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

24

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +141%

58

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

45

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +142%

109

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

75

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +93%

145

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

72

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +25%

90

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

74

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +97%

146

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

120

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti +50%

180

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1350 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

352bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

616.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

4352

176

TMUs

272

96

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

544

-

RT Cores

68

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.0 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.90 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.45 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

420.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

TU102

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

TU102-300A-K1-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

8 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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