GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce GTX 980 Ti (21/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

21/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 1.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 19.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 19504 72432
Night Raid 70127 195813
Port Royal 3250 26127
Time Spy 5855 36299
Wild Life Extreme 11870 85218
Solar Bay — 187525

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 5.2 8.9
DLSS No DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.2 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 71 255
1080p Ultra 55 217
1440p Ultra 39 177
4K Ultra 20 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 57463123 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 133916730 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 43442411 22620814366
Far Cry 6 73614525 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 88514027 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 41332412 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 44342512 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 76704722 302284222118
The Witcher 3 83664622 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 11660 75599
Face Detection (HP) 8201 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3173 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 4916 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7407 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 2607 6349
Object Detection (SP) 4123 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 27221 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 55570 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1675 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 134.8 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.79 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 59.8 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.22 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.46 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.37 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4183.6 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 191.9 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GM200 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Released June 2, 2015 September 20, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1000 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1076 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 176
Shading Units 2816 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 176 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 384-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 106 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 848 1303
GPU Compute 6091 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 601 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 28 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 250 W 450 W
Transistor Count 8 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 13.31 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 103 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 189 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 980 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) — Cinebench 2024

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