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

Tesla C2070

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 238 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

474

N/A

geekbench_metal

15,163

N/A

geekbench_opencl

33,457

9,716

geekbench_vulkan

38,172

N/A

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

Tesla C2070

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

448 -78.1%

Shaders

2,048

448 -78.1%

TMUs

128

56 -56.3%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

—

14

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

574 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1147 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

747 MHz 3 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

143.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

768 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

16.07 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

32.14 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

4.981 TFLOPS

1,027.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

513.9 GFLOPS (1:2)

Power

TDP

165 W

238 W

TDP (W)

165

238 +44.2%

Suggested PSU

450 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Fermi

GPU Name

GM204

GF100

Generation

GeForce 900

Tesla Fermi (x20xx)

Process Size

28 nm

40 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,100 million

Die Size

398 mm²

529 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

5.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

—

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

CUDA

5.2

2.0

Shader Model

6.8

5.1

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

248 mm 9.8 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Tesla

Successor

GeForce 10

Tesla Kepler

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