GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
CORE STATE
GM108
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
941 MHz
TDP
33 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 980
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1216 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
930A
GTX 980
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
2,048
+433.3%
Shaders
384
2,048
+433.3%
TMUs
24
128
+433.3%
ROPs
8
64
+700.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
928 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
941 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
2 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.528 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
22.58 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
722.7 GFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
22.58 GFLOPS (1:32)
155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
33 W
165 W
TDP (W)
33
165
+400.0%
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GM108
GM204
Generation
GeForce 900A
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,020 million
5,200 million
Die Size
77 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.0
5.2
Shader Model
6.7 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
IGP
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
549 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800A
GeForce 700
Successor
—
GeForce 10