GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1
vs
Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 and the Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and has 16384 texture shaders and 128 execution units.

Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which has 2816 shaders and 22 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 GPU Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AD102-300-A1 GPU Chip GM200-310-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Maxwell 2.0
128 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
16384 Shader 2816
176 Render Output Units 96
512 Texture Units 176
128 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 has 24 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

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

24 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
1008 GB/s Memory bandwidth 337 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 clocks in the base with up to 2.235 GHz. The base frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 1.000 GHz.

2.235 GHz Base Clock 1.000 GHz
2.565 GHz Boost Clock 1.076 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 is 450 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The Palit 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.

450 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 has a total of 3 Axial (Radiator) fans.

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

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Radial
3 x 120 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1.

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

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

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

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 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
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 is 238 mm long, 141 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and 38 mm wide.

238 mm Length 267 mm
141 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 XTREME WATERFORCE 24G Rev. 1.1 was released in Q4/2022 at a price of 1,599 $ (Reference).

The Palit GeForce GTX 980 Ti was introduced in Q2/2015 at a price of 699 $.

GV-N4090AORUSX W-24GD Part-no NE5X98T015JBF
Q4/2022 Release date Q2/2015
1,599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $
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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