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

PG506-232

CORE STATE GA100

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1440 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 3072 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

34,676

225,124

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

N/A

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

PG506-232

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

3,584 +75.0%

Shaders

2,048

3,584 +75.0%

TMUs

128

224 +75.0%

ROPs

64

96 +50.0%

SM Count

—

56

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1440 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1215 MHz 2.4 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

24,576 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

HBM2

Memory Bus

256 bit

3072 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

192 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

24 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

138.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

Tensor Cores

—

224

Power

TDP

165 W

165 W

TDP (W)

165

165 0.0%

Suggested PSU

450 W

450 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA100

Generation

GeForce 900

Server Ampere (Axx)

Process Size

28 nm

7 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

54,200 million

Die Size

398 mm²

826 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

65.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

—

OpenGL

4.6

—

Vulkan

1.4

—

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.0

Shader Model

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

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Tesla Turing

Successor

GeForce 10

Server Ada

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