GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Overall Score
21/100
GRADE D · Poor
Key Technical Specifications
Graphics (GPU) Maxwell 2.0
[ EXPERT VERDICT · SUMMARY ]

GeForce GTX 980 Ti is an engineering-tested graphics cards achieving an overall rating of 21/100. It is positioned for balanced everyday compute and power efficiency.

Benchmark Performance Scores

Normalized 0–100 Scale
Efficiency
1/100
Rating: Poor
Gaming
19/100
Rating: Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Fire Strike 19504
Night Raid 70127
Port Royal 3250
Time Spy 5855
Wild Life Extreme 11870

API

API specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
CUDA 5.2
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.2
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing No
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
1080p High 71
1080p Ultra 55
1440p Ultra 39
4K Ultra 20
CoD: Modern Warfare III 57463123
Counter-Strike 2 133916730
Cyberpunk 2077 43442411
Far Cry 6 73614525
Forza Horizon 5 88514027
Ghost of Tsushima 41332412
Hogwarts Legacy 44342512
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 76704722
The Witcher 3 83664622

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 11660
Face Detection (HP) 8201
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3173
Image Segmentation (HP) 4916
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7407
Machine Translation (HP) 2607
Object Detection (SP) 4123
Pose Estimation (Q) 27221
Style Transfer (SP) 55570
Text Classification (SP) 1675

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
API OpenCL
Background Blur 134.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.79 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 59.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.46 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.37 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4183.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 191.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Architecture Maxwell 2.0
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename GM200
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Purpose Gaming
Released June 2, 2015
Segment High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

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

Memory

Memory specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Bus 384-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1753 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR5

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
DirectX 11 106 FPS
DirectX 12 55 FPS
G2D Mark 848
GPU Compute 6091 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Die Size 601 mm²
Fabrication Process 28 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 250 W
Transistor Count 8 billion
Transistor Density 13.31 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications for GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Specification Value
Pixel Fill Rate 103 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 189 GTexel/s

Strengths & Limitations

Key Advantages

  • Comprehensive positive benchmark metrics recorded.

Key Considerations

  • No major hardware limitations flagged during benchmark run.

Direct Competitors & Alternatives

Methodology, Provenance & Verification

Score version 2026.1 · Data verified 2026-08-26 · Source: official manufacturer datasheets and standardized reproducible benchmark suites (Geekbench 6, Cinebench R24, 3DMark).

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