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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a Maxwell-based desktop graphics card from 2015 with 2816 CUDA cores and 6 GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus. It was aimed at 4K and high-refresh gaming and has a 250 W rated board power.
Pros
- Large 6 GB frame buffer for its generation
- Wide 384-bit memory bus with about 336 GB/s of bandwidth
- 2816 CUDA cores on the GM200 chip
- Aimed at 4K gaming when it launched
Cons
- Needs both 6-pin and 8-pin power connectors and a 600 W recommended PSU
- No ray tracing or AI upscaling hardware
- 250 W board power is high for its performance level today
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
General
- Announced
- 2015
- Architecture
- Maxwell
- Process
- 28 nm
- TDP
- 250 W
- Power connector
- 6-pin + 8-pin
Cores & Clocks
- Shading units
- 2,816
- Base clock
- 1,000 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1,075 MHz
Memory
- VRAM
- 6 GB
- VRAM type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 384 bit
- Bandwidth
- 337 GB/s
Benchmarks
- 3DMark Time Spy
- 5,789Bottom 24%
- PassMark G3D
- 13,614Bottom 32%
Quick answers
Is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti good in 2026?
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti earns an Inno Score of 34.3/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a Maxwell-based desktop graphics card from 2015 with 2816 CUDA cores and 6 GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus. It was aimed at 4K and high-refresh gaming and has a 250 W rated board power.
What are the key specs of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti?
VRAM: 6 GB · Boost clock: 1,075 MHz · TDP: 250 W · 3DMark Time Spy: 5,789
What are the closest alternatives to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Radeon RX 580, AMD Radeon RX 590, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
