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 RTX 4070 Mobile

CORE STATE AD106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 115 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

109,197

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

108,367

passmark_directx_10

53

116

passmark_directx_11

83

179

passmark_directx_12

46

85

passmark_directx_9

164

223

passmark_g2d

792

763

passmark_g3d

11,095

19,587

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

8,399

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 4070 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

4,608 +125.0%

Shaders

2,048

4,608 +125.0%

TMUs

128

144 +12.5%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

—

36

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

8,192 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

32 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

81.36 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

15.62 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

244.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

15.62 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

144

Power

TDP

165 W

115 W

TDP (W)

165

115 -30.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

22,900 million

Die Size

398 mm²

188 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.8M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50 Mobile

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