GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and has 2048 texture shaders and 16 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has 2816 shaders and 22 execution units.
GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GM204-400-A1 GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2048 Shader 2816
64 Render Output Units 96
128 Texture Units 176
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 337 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled clocks in the base with up to 1.304 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.002 GHz.

1.304 GHz Base Clock 1.002 GHz
1.418 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is 165 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

165 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled has a total of 0 -- fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Radial
-- Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 4096x2160 pixels.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled is 308 mm long, 129 mm high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

308 mm Length 267 mm
129 mm Height 111 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Watercooled was released in Q3/2014 at a price of 649 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti was introduced in Q2/2015 at a price of 649 $.

98NQH6DNF1WT Part-no --
Q3/2014 Release date Q2/2015
649 $ Launch Price 649 $
28 nm Structure size 28 nm
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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

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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