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    GeForce RTX 3050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

    GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
    Release date: UNRELEASED
    GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
    GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 2 Jun 2015
    GeForce GTX 980 Ti

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

    100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 980 Ti .
    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
    Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Ti

    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

    HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3050 Ti

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 980 Ti
    GPU NameGA106 (GA106-200-A1)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
    Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size300 mm²vs601 mm²
    Transistors13,250 millionvs8,000 million
    Shaders3584vs2816
    Compute Units28vs22
    Core clock1350 MHzvs1000 MHz
    ROPs64vs96
    TMUs112vs176

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 980 Ti
    Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
    Memory Speed1750 MHz
    14 Gbps effective    		vs1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce RTX 3050 TiGeForce GTX 980 Ti
    TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
    Release DateUNRELEASEDvs2 Jun 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
      108.00 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
      96.00 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
      188.90 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
      176.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
      336.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
      337.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
      12090.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
      5632.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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