NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2021
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1365 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
80
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Shading Units
10240
2048
TMUs
320
128
ROPs
112
64
Tensor Cores
320
—
RT Cores
80
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
186.5 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM204
GPU Variant
GA102-225-A1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
165W
Suggested PSU
750 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
19,629
—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
10,032
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3DMark Speed Way
5,330
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.