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 5080

CORE STATE GB203

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2617 MHz

TDP 360 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Blackwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2025

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

8,637

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

264,461

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

257,942

passmark_directx_10

53

208

passmark_directx_11

83

324

passmark_directx_12

46

151

passmark_directx_9

164

389

passmark_g2d

792

1,415

passmark_g3d

11,095

36,565

passmark_gpu_compute

4,753

21,789

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 980

RTX 5080

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

2295 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2617 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1875 MHz 30 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR7

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

960.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

293.1 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

879.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

56.28 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

879.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

56.28 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

165 W

360 W

TDP (W)

165

360 +118.2%

Suggested PSU

450 W

750 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Blackwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GB203

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 50

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

45,600 million

Die Size

398 mm²

378 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

120.6M / 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

304 mm 12 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

137 mm 5.4 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

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 40

Successor

GeForce 10

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