GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
	Difference: 3568 (26%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		80 FPS
GeForce GTX 980		63 FPS
	Difference: 17 (27%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 980		20 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (10%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
	Difference: 17 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be much (approximately 22%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31872 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 980, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23936 (33%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.