Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0)


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0), we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and has 2048 texture shaders and 16 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, which has 1920 shaders and 30 execution units.
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
GM204-400-A1 GPU Chip TU106
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Turing
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 30
2048 Shader 1920
64 Render Output Units 48
128 Texture Units 120
0 Raytracing Cores 30

Memory

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) can access 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 339 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.768 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.1 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 339 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer clocks in the base with up to 1.139 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) is 1.365 GHz.

1.139 GHz Base Clock 1.365 GHz
1.240 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer is 165 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 6-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) has a TDP of 160 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

165 W TDP 160 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 85 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
2 x 75 mm Fan 2 --
Air 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 Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer is 292 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) is 290 mm long, 140 mm high and 58 mm wide.

292 mm Length 290 mm
111 mm Height 140 mm
-- Width 58 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Triple Silencer was released in Q2/2015 at a price of 479 $.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G (rev. 2.0) was introduced in Q2/2019 at a price of 349 $ (Reference).

ZT-90206-10P Part-no GV-N2060AORUS X-6GC
Q2/2015 Release date Q2/2019
479 $ Launch Price 349 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 12 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)

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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