NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.2x more boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1075 MHz
  • 6x more texture fill rate: 1,056 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
  • 5x more pipelines: 14080 vs 2816
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.3x more maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 6 GB
  • 189.3x more memory clock speed: 1325 MHz, 21.2 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s
Launch date 2023 vs 2 June 2015
Core clock speed 2100 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1075 MHz
Texture fill rate 1,056 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
Pipelines 14080 vs 2816
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 20 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 1325 MHz, 21.2 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 400 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 400 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark 13758
PassMark - G2D Mark 852
Geekbench - OpenCL 42988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 145.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1722.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 788.464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1321

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Maxwell 2.0
Code name AD102 GM200
Launch date 2023 2 June 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 310
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Price now $679.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 23.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2400 MHz 1075 MHz
Core clock speed 2100 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,056 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 67.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 67.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines 14080 2816
Pixel fill rate 345.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 1,056 GTexel/s 176 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 76300 million 8,000 million
CUDA cores 2816
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Triple-slot
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 336 mm, 13.2 inches 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 6-pin + 8-pin
Width 140 mm, 5.5 inches
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
SLI options 4x

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 848.0 GB/s 336.5 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1325 MHz, 21.2 Gbps effective 7.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround