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 5090 D

CORE STATE GB202

VRAM 32 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2407 MHz

TDP 575 W

BUS WIDTH 512 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

14,326

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

375,966

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

376,915

passmark_directx_10

53

231

passmark_directx_11

83

371

passmark_directx_12

46

219

passmark_directx_9

164

434

passmark_g2d

792

1,487

passmark_g3d

11,095

44,065

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

28,396

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 5090 D

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

21,760 +962.5%

Shaders

2,048

21,760 +962.5%

TMUs

128

680 +431.3%

ROPs

64

176 +175.0%

SM Count

—

170

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2017 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2407 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

32 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

32,768 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

512 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

1.79 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

423.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

1,636.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

104.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

1.637 TFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

104.8 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

170

Tensor Cores

—

680

Power

TDP

165 W

575 W

TDP (W)

165

575 +248.5%

Suggested PSU

450 W

950 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB202

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

92,200 million

Die Size

398 mm²

750 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

122.9M / 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

12.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-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 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 5.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

2,299 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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