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GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which comes with a clock frequency of 1350 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 14 MHz. It also uses a 352-bit bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 4352 SPUs, 272 TAUs, and 88 Raster Operation 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 RTX 2080 Ti		31381 points
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
	Difference: 14261 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 294784 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 109%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 191200 (109%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is much (more or less 24%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22800 (24%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 980 Ti	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	June 2015	September 2018
Code Name	GM200	TU102-300A-K1-A1
Memory	6144 MB	11264 MB
Core Speed	1000 MHz	1350 MHz
Memory Speed	7000 MHz	28 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	250 watts	250 watts
Bandwidth	336000 MB/sec	630784 MB/sec
Texel Rate	176000 Mtexels/sec	367200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	96000 Mpixels/sec	118800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	2816	4352
Texture Mapping Units	176	272
Render Output Units	96	88
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Bus Width	384-bit	352-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	12 nm
Transistors	8000 million	(Unknown) million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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