GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
14336 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+1557%
82580
GeForce GTX 980
4981
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+732%
36328
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4090
+849%
19460
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+927%
185
GeForce GTX 980
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+700%
280
GeForce GTX 980
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+390%
304
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+175%
165
GeForce GTX 980
60
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+198%
185
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+86%
186
GeForce GTX 980
100
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
-
16384
Shading Units
2048
512
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
165W
850 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GM204
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
