GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs A2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
A2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1770MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+33%
6060
A2
4531
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
A2
+65%
902
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Nov 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
10
2816
Shading Units
1280
176
TMUs
40
96
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GA107
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
601 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
