GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming
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GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming has 2816 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.28 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.20 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G has 7680 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.64 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 40.55 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture and is equipped with 60 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming GPU GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
GM200-310-A1 GPU Chip AD104-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Ada Lovelace
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 60
2816 Shader 7680
96 Render Output Units 80
176 Texture Units 240
0 Raytracing Cores 60

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G has a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.313GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
337 GB/s Memory bandwidth 504 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming has a turbo clock of 1.279 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G is 2.640 GHz.

1.190 GHz Base Clock 2.310 GHz
1.279 GHz Boost Clock 2.640 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming has 2 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 GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G is equipped with a 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

250 W TDP 285 W (Reference)
-- TDP (up) --
91 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

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 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

296 mm Length 336 mm
120 mm Height 140 mm
39 mm Width 58 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming was released in Q2/2015.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G published in Q1/2023 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.

GV-N98TG1 GAMING-6GD Part-no GV-N407TGAMING OC-12GD
Q2/2015 Release date Q1/2023
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 799 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet 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

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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