Comparing MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

gpu MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk item

• GPU Chip
  GM200-310-A1 (Maxwell 2.0) TU104
• Execution units
  22 48
• Shader
  2816 3072
• Render Output Units
  96 64
• Texture Units
  176 192
• Raytracing Cores
  0 48

• Memory Size
  6 GB 8 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR5 GDDR6
• Memory Clock
  1.775 GHz 1.938 GHz
• Memory Speed
  7.1 Gbps 15.5 Gbps
• Memory Bandwith
  341 GB/s 496 GB/s
• Memory Interface
  384 bit 256 bit

• Base Clock
  1.190 GHz+ 19 % 1.650 GHz
• Boost Clock
  1.291 GHz+ 20 % 1.815 GHz
• Avg (Game) Clock
  --

• TDP
  250 W 250 W
• TDP (up)
  -- 280 W

• Max. resolution
  4096x2160 7680x4320
• DirectX
  12_1 12_2 (Ultimate)
• Raytracing
  No Yes
• DLSS / FSR
  No Yes

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

• GPU Interface
  PCIe 3 x 16 PCIe 3.0 x 16
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q2/2019
• Launch Price
  799 $ 699 $
• Structure size
  28 nm 12 nm