GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1076 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 290 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,321

3,478

geekbench_metal

19,520

N/A

geekbench_opencl

43,259

137,518

geekbench_vulkan

47,724

130,778

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

192

passmark_directx_12

N/A

91

passmark_directx_9

N/A

261

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,055

passmark_g3d

N/A

23,356

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

11,601

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980 Ti

RTX 3070 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,816

6,144 +118.2%

Shaders

2,816

6,144 +118.2%

TMUs

176

192 +9.1%

ROPs

96

96 0.0%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1575 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1770 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

8,192 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

336.6 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

3 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

169.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

6.060 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

339.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

21.75 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

250 W

290 W

TDP (W)

250

290 +16.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM200

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

8,000 million

17,400 million

Die Size

601 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.3M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

649 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 40

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