GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti and has 2816 texture shaders and 22 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which has 10752 shaders and 84 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GM200-310-A1 GPU Chip GA102-350-A1
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Ampere
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 84
2816 Shader 10752
96 Render Output Units 112
176 Texture Units 336
0 Raytracing Cores 84

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 346 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition can access 24 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.800 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
7.2 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
346 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1008 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce clocks in the base with up to 1.241 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is 1.670 GHz.

1.241 GHz Base Clock 1.670 GHz
1.342 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce is 250 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition has a TDP of 450 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

250 W TDP 450 W
-- TDP (up) --
91 °C Tjunction max 92 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce has a total of 1 Axial (Radiator) fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Axial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 42 dB

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 GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED 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 Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce is 269 mm long, 121 mm high and 43 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is 313 mm long, 138 mm high and -- wide.

269 mm Length 313 mm
121 mm Height 138 mm
43 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 Ti Xtreme OC WaterForce was released in Q4/2015 at a price of 649 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition was introduced in Q1/2022 at a price of 1,999 $ (Reference).

GV-N98TXTREME W-6GD Part-no --
Q4/2015 Release date Q1/2022
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,999 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 8 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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