NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2020
Jun 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1440 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
10GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
320bit
384bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
336.6GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
68
-
Shading Units
8704
2816
TMUs
272
176
ROPs
96
96
Tensor Cores
272
-
RT Cores
68
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
5 MB
3 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA102
GM200
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
GM200-310-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
8 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
601 mm²

Board Design

TDP
320W
250W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.8

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
17,662
5,789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
2,807
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
75
Blender
-
544
GTA 5 2160p
-
72
GTA 5 1440p
-
74
GTA 5 1080p
-
120