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 5070

CORE STATE GB205

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2512 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

5,077

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

185,269

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

179,413

passmark_directx_10

53

180

passmark_directx_11

83

277

passmark_directx_12

46

108

passmark_directx_9

164

320

passmark_g2d

792

1,305

passmark_g3d

11,095

29,137

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

15,787

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 5070

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Shaders

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

TMUs

128

192 +50.0%

ROPs

64

80 +25.0%

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2325 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2512 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 28 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

201.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

482.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

30.87 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

482.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.87 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

192

Power

TDP

165 W

250 W

TDP (W)

165

250 +51.5%

Suggested PSU

450 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB205

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

31,100 million

Die Size

398 mm²

263 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

118.3M / 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

245 mm 9.6 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

115 mm 4.5 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

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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