GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 225W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1665MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
4981
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+225%
16200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980
4362
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+180%
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980
2049
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+189%
5941
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 980
18
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+177%
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 980
35
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+157%
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 980
62
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+122%
138
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 980
60
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+10%
66
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 980
62
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+64%
102
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 980
100
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+55%
155
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 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
1410 MHz
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
38
2048
Shading Units
4864
128
TMUs
152
64
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA104
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
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
6.7
