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 4090

CORE STATE AD102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2520 MHz

TDP 450 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

9,223

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

317,684

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

270,615

passmark_directx_10

53

224

passmark_directx_11

83

326

passmark_directx_12

46

150

passmark_directx_9

164

397

passmark_g2d

792

1,299

passmark_g3d

11,095

38,194

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

26,613

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 4090

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

Shaders

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

TMUs

128

512 +300.0%

ROPs

64

176 +175.0%

SM Count

—

128

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2235 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2520 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

24,576 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

1.01 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

72 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

443.5 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

1,290.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

1,290.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

128

Tensor Cores

—

512

Power

TDP

165 W

450 W

TDP (W)

165

450 +172.7%

Suggested PSU

450 W

850 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

76,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

609 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

125.3M / 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

Triple-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

304 mm 12 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

137 mm 5.4 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

1,599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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