GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1076 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A4000

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1560 MHz

TDP 140 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,321

2,604

geekbench_metal

19,520

N/A

geekbench_opencl

43,259

121,988

geekbench_vulkan

47,724

111,712

passmark_directx_10

N/A

126

passmark_directx_11

N/A

158

passmark_directx_12

N/A

72

passmark_directx_9

N/A

240

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,024

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,459

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,760

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980 Ti

RTX A4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,816

6,144 +118.2%

Shaders

2,816

6,144 +118.2%

TMUs

176

192 +9.1%

ROPs

96

96 0.0%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1000 MHz

735 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1560 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

16,384 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

336.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

3 MB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

149.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

6.060 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

299.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

19.17 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

250 W

140 W

TDP (W)

250

140 -44.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM200

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

8,000 million

17,400 million

Die Size

601 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.3M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

649 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ada

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