MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z vs Palit GTX 980 Ti

Comparison of MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores vs Palit GTX 980 Ti with 6 GB GDDR5 and 2,816 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms Palit GTX 980 Ti by 849.5% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

Palit GTX 980 Ti

5.0

Palit GTX 980 Ti

5.0

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

🔥 +433% 32 ГБ
6 GB

Memory Type

GDDR7 GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

🔥 1.79 TB/s
336.6 GB/s

Memory Bus Width

512 бит 384 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

🔥 118.8 TFLOPS
No

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

🔥 +1,860% 118.8 TFLOPS
6.06 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +880% 1.856 TFLOPS
0.1894 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

🔥 +673% 21,760
2,816

RT Cores

🔥 170
No

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Blackwell 2.0 Maxwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

🔥 170
No

PCIe Version

PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

🔥 12.0
5.2

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

🔥 +102% 2,017
1,000

Boost Clock

🔥 +154% 2,730
1,076

Memory Clock

🔥 1,750
1,753

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

1400 W
🔥 -57% 600 W

Power Connector

🔥 +100% 2x 16-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

TDP/TGP

1000 W
🔥 -75% 250 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

🔥 +286% 680
176

ROP

🔥 170
No

L2 Cache

🔥 +3,100% 96 MB
3 MB

Additional

Slots

Triple-slot Dual-slot

Release Date

Jan. 6, 2026 June 2, 2015

Display Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.2

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