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

P106-090

CORE STATE GP106

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1531 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

509

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

21,031

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

19,608

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

P106-090

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

768 -62.5%

Shaders

2,048

768 -62.5%

TMUs

128

48 -62.5%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

—

6

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1354 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1531 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

3 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

3,072 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

73.49 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

73.49 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

2.352 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

73.49 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

36.74 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

165 W

75 W

TDP (W)

165

75 -54.5%

Suggested PSU

450 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Pascal

GPU Name

GM204

GP106

Generation

GeForce 900

Mining GPUs

Process Size

28 nm

16 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

4,400 million

Die Size

398 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

22.0M / 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

6.1

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

250 mm 9.8 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x1

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

—

Successor

GeForce 10

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