GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

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

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

1,321

geekbench_metal

15,163

19,520

geekbench_opencl

33,457

43,259

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

47,724

passmark_directx_10

53

N/A

passmark_directx_11

83

N/A

passmark_directx_12

46

N/A

passmark_directx_9

164

N/A

passmark_g2d

792

N/A

passmark_g3d

11,095

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

GTX 980 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

2,816 +37.5%

Shaders

2,048

2,816 +37.5%

TMUs

128

176 +37.5%

ROPs

64

96 +50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1076 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

103.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

165 W

250 W

TDP (W)

165

250 +51.5%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM200

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

8,000 million

Die Size

398 mm²

601 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

13.3M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 10

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