Comparing MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk vs GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11G

gpu MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk item

• Based on
  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
• GPU Chip
  GM200-310-A1 (Maxwell 2.0) TU102
• Execution units
  22 68
• Shader
  2816 4352
• Render Output Units
  96 88
• Texture Units
  176 272

• Memory Size
  6 GB 11 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR5 GDDR6
• Memory Speed
  7.1 Gbps 1.75 GHz
• Memory Bandwith
  341 GB/s 616 GB/s
• Memory Interface
  384 bit 352 bit

• Base Clock
  1.190 GHz+ 19 % 1.350 GHz
• Boost Clock
  1.291 GHz+ 20 % 1.695 GHz+ 10 %
• Avg (Game) Clock
  1.545 GHz
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes

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

• Fan-Type
  Radial / Axial (Radiator) Axial
• Fan 1
  1 x 65 mm 3 x 100 mm
• Fan 2
  1 x 120 mm --
• Cooler-Type
  AIO water cooling Air cooling
• Noise (Idle)
  0 dB / Silent 0 dB / Silent
• Noise (Load)
  -- 40 dB

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

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

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

• Length
  270 mm 290 mm
• Height
  111 mm 134 mm
• Width
  40 mm 60 mm
• Width (Slots)
  2 PCIe-Slots 3 PCIe-Slots

• GPU Interface
  PCIe 3 x 16 PCIe 3.0 x 16
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q3/2018
• Structure size
  28 nm 12 nm
• Part-no
  -- GV-N208TAORUS-11GC
• Documents
  -- data sheet