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 SUPER

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2475 MHz

TDP 220 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

4,627

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

192,684

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

179,271

passmark_directx_10

53

167

passmark_directx_11

83

273

passmark_directx_12

46

110

passmark_directx_9

164

344

passmark_g2d

792

1,184

passmark_g3d

11,095

29,995

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

17,108

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 4070 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

7,168 +250.0%

Shaders

2,048

7,168 +250.0%

TMUs

128

224 +75.0%

ROPs

64

80 +25.0%

SM Count

—

56

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1980 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2475 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

198.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

35.48 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

554.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

35.48 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

56

Tensor Cores

—

224

Power

TDP

165 W

220 W

TDP (W)

165

220 +33.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

35,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 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

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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