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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released June, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- 1 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
8.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Thanks to the overclock out of the box, its gaming price/performance ratio is better than with the GTX 980 Ti reference or GTX 980.
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Released July, 2016
MSI GeForce GTX 1060
- 1.5 GHz
- 6 GB GDDR5
8.1 Out of 10
by Ryan-Shrout (Aug, 2016)Can it keep the GPU cool enough to run at reasonable temperatures and to allow the GPU to work at the expected clock speeds?
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 980 Ti vs 1060 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 8.5 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better PassMark score | 11,322 | vs | 8,686 | More than 30% better PassMark score | |||
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| Much better T-Rex score | 8,062.99 | vs | 3,358.5 | Around 2.5x better T-Rex score | |||
| Many more render output processors | 96 | vs | 48 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 5,632 GFLOPS | vs | 3,953 GFLOPS | More than 40% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 2,816 | vs | 1,280 | 1536 more shading units | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 176 | vs | 80 | 96 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 96 GPixel/s | vs | 74.1 GPixel/s | Around 30% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 176 GTexel/s | vs | 123.5 GTexel/s | Around 45% higher texture rate | |||
| Better ocean surface simulation score | 1,713.58 frames/s | vs | 1,436.94 frames/s | Around 20% better ocean surface simulation score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 6,438 | vs | 5,049 | Around 30% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,544 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | Around 55% higher clock speed | |||
| Much higher turbo clock speed | 1,759 MHz | vs | 1,076 MHz | Around 65% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 8,008 MHz | vs | 7,012 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 2,002 MHz | vs | 1,753 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Much lower TDP | 120W | vs | 250W | 2.1x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs 1060
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) Data courtesy CompuBench
Video composition Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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