GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 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 290W)
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1770MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
4981
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
+336%
21750
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980
4362
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
+240%
14872
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980
2049
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB
+261%
7416
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
1575 MHz
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
48
2048
Shading Units
6144
128
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
339.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
21.75 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
21.75 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
339.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
290W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 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
GA104-401-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
6.6
