ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition has 9728 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.63 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 51.07 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE has 2816 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.11 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 6.27 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 76 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition GPU MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AD103-300-A1 GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Maxwell 2.0
76 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
9728 Shader 2816
112 Render Output Units 96
304 Texture Units 176
76 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.400 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.400 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
22.4 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
717 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition has a turbo clock of 2.625 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE is 1.114 GHz.

2.205 GHz Base Clock 1.026 GHz
2.625 GHz Boost Clock 1.114 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

320 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 110 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
33 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.1a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
ASUS Aura Sync LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition is 73 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE is 73 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

348 mm Length 269 mm
160 mm Height 140 mm
73 mm Width 40 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 16GB OC Edition was released in Q4/2022.

The MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming LE published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q4/2022 Release date Q2/2016
1,199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 649 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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