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

L4

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2040 MHz

TDP 72 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

140,838

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

116,491

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

L4

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

7,424 +262.5%

Shaders

2,048

7,424 +262.5%

TMUs

128

240 +87.5%

ROPs

64

80 +25.0%

SM Count

—

60

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

795 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2040 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1563 MHz 12.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

24,576 +500.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

300.1 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

163.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

30.29 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

473.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.29 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

60

Tensor Cores

—

240

Power

TDP

165 W

72 W

TDP (W)

165

72 -56.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD104

Generation

GeForce 900

Server Ada (Lxx)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

35,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.8M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

169 mm 6.7 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

56 mm 2.2 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

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Server Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10

Server Hopper

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