Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.30 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.34 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.72 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.34 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GM200-310-A1 GPU Chip GP102-350-K1-A1
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Pascal
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2816 Shader 3584
96 Render Output Units 88
176 Texture Units 224
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z has a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.391GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5X
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.391 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 11.1 Gbps
337 GB/s Memory bandwidth 489 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN has a turbo clock of 1.304 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is 1.721 GHz.

1.203 GHz Base Clock 1.480 GHz
1.304 GHz Boost Clock 1.721 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.70 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN has 3 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is equipped with a 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

250 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
91 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN are cooled with a Hybrid cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Hybrid cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting 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
No h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 320 mm
-- Height 140 mm
-- Width 61 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1707 g
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 980 Ti KUDAN was released in Q2/2016.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z published in Q1/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2016 Release date Q1/2017
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 16 nm
-- Documents data sheet

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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

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)

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
11 GB GDDR5X
61 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
11 GB GDDR5X
113 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
11 GB GDDR5X
159 fps (avg)

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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