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

RTX A6000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1800 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

180,149

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

165,451

passmark_directx_10

53

155

passmark_directx_11

83

191

passmark_directx_12

46

87

passmark_directx_9

164

245

passmark_g2d

792

913

passmark_g3d

11,095

22,577

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

14,110

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX A6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

10,752 +425.0%

Shaders

2,048

10,752 +425.0%

TMUs

128

336 +162.5%

ROPs

64

112 +75.0%

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 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

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

201.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

165 W

300 W

TDP (W)

165

300 +81.8%

Suggested PSU

450 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA102

Generation

GeForce 900

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

28,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / mm²

45.1M / 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

8.6

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

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

4,649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ada

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