NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition has 10240 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.67 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 34.10 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.39 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.70 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GA102-225-A1 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Ampere Architecture Maxwell 2.0
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
10240 Shader 2048
112 Render Output Units 64
320 Texture Units 128
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.188 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

12 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
912 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition has a turbo clock of 1.665 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid is 1.393 GHz.

1.365 GHz Base Clock 1.291 GHz
1.665 GHz Boost Clock 1.393 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition 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 93 °C.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

350 W TDP 165 W
400 W TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid is cooled by a Hybrid cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial / Axial (Radiator)
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 120 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Hybrid cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
43 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

285 mm Length 267 mm
112 mm Height 111 mm
42 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

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition was released in Q2/2021.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Hybrid published in Q3/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no 04G-P4-1989-KR
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2014
1,199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 649 $
8 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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