Comparing GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8G vs MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning

gpu GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8G item

• Based on
  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
• GPU Chip
  TU104 GM200-310-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)
• Execution units
  48 22
• Shader
  3072 2816
• Render Output Units
  64 96
• Texture Units
  192 176

• Memory Size
  8 GB 6 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 GDDR5
• Memory Speed
  1.938 GHz 7.1 Gbps
• Memory Bandwith
  496 GB/s 341 GB/s
• Memory Interface
  256 bit 384 bit

• Base Clock
  1.650 GHz 1.203 GHz+ 20 %
• Boost Clock
  1.860 GHz+ 2 % 1.304 GHz+ 21 %
• Avg (Game) Clock
  1.815 GHz
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes

• TDP
  250 W 250 W
• TDP (up)
  280 W --
• Tjunction max
  -- 92 \xc2\xb0C
• PCIe-Power
  2 x 8-Pin 1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin

• Fan-Type
  Axial Axial
• Cooler-Type
  Air cooling Air cooling
• Fan 1
  3 x 100 mm 3 x 90 mm
• Noise (Idle)
  0 dB / Silent 0 dB / Silent
• Noise (Load)
  43 dB --

• Max. Displays
  4 4
• HDCP-Version
  2.2 2.2
• HDMI Ports
  3x HDMI v2.0b 1x HDMI v2.0
• DP Ports
  3x DP v1.4a 3x DP v1.2
• DVI Ports
  -- 1
• USB-C Ports
  1 --

• Max. resolution
  7680x4320 4096x2160
• DirectX
  12_2 12_1
• Raytracing
  Yes No
• DLSS / FSR
  Yes No
• LED
  GIGABYTE RGB Fusion No LED lighting

• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• h265 / HEVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No

• Length
  290 mm 330 mm
• Height
  134 mm 140 mm
• Width
  60 mm 53 mm
• Width (Slots)
  3 PCIe-Slots 3 PCIe-Slots

• GPU Interface
  PCIe 3.0 x 16 PCIe 3 x 16
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q3/2015
• Structure size
  12 nm 28 nm
• Part-no
  GV-N208SAORUS-8GC --
• Documents
  data sheet --