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

Quadro RTX 8000

CORE STATE TU102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 260 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

125,554

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

125,781

passmark_directx_10

53

137

passmark_directx_11

83

188

passmark_directx_12

46

79

passmark_directx_9

164

211

passmark_g2d

792

866

passmark_g3d

11,095

19,799

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

9,992

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

Quadro RTX 8000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

4,608 +125.0%

Shaders

2,048

4,608 +125.0%

TMUs

128

288 +125.0%

ROPs

64

96 +50.0%

SM Count

—

72

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1770 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

49,152 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

169.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

16.31 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

509.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

32.62 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

72

Tensor Cores

—

576

Power

TDP

165 W

260 W

TDP (W)

165

260 +57.6%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM204

TU102

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Turing (Tx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

18,600 million

Die Size

398 mm²

754 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

24.7M / 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

7.5

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

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

9,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Volta

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ampere

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