GeForce GTX 980 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which has GPU clock speed of 1480 MHz, and 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory set to run at 1376 MHz through a 352-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, and 88 ROPs.

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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 1080 Ti		27629 points
GeForce GTX 980		13552 points
	Difference: 14077 (104%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 980		408 Sol/s
	Difference: 302 (74%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 271616 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 130%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 187392 (130%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 980, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58176 (81%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.