GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that 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 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 96 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 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 speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be a lot (more or less 22%) more effective 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 using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the winner, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.