NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 28nm process, based on Nvidia Maxwell 2.0 architecture and released on Sep 2014. It features 5.2 billion transistors, 2048 CUDA cores and 4GB GDDR5 memory, with 2MB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 4.981TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 165W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Sep 2014

Generation

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

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Shading Units

2048

TMUs

128

ROPs

64

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

GM204

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

5.2 billion

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

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TDP

165W

Suggested PSU

450 W

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

5.2

Shader Model

6.4

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

NVIDIA CMP 30HX 6 GB GDDR6

5.027 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB GDDR5

5.027 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GDDR6

5.027 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

4.981 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile 8 GB GDDR5

4.963 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile 8 GB GDDR5

4.963 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 8 GB GDDR5

4.963 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4 GB HBM

4607

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 8 GB GDDR5

4432

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

4362

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

4322

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB GDDR6

4320

AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 GB GDDR5

4245

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 6 GB GDDR5

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 8 GB GDDR6

20 fps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 8 GB GDDR6

20 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB GDDR6

19 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

18 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

18 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

17 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

17 fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 8 GB GDDR6

42 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB GDDR6

40 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 5 GB GDDR5

40 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

35 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

35 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

35 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

34 fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB GDDR6

64 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

62 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

52 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 6 GB GDDR5X

51 fps

AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB GDDR5

50 fps

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

50 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 5 GB GDDR5

50 fps

GTA 5 2160p

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB GDDR6

61 fps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB GDDR6

61 fps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB GDDR6

61 fps

AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB GDDR6

60 fps

AMD Radeon RX 7600S 8 GB GDDR6

60 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB GDDR6

60 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GDDR6

60 fps

GTA 5 1440p

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 3 GB GDDR5

65 fps

AMD Radeon RX 7600S 8 GB GDDR6

64 fps

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB GDDR6

64 fps

AMD Radeon VII 16 GB HBM2

62 fps

AMD Radeon RX 6600M 8 GB GDDR6

62 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB GDDR6

62 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

62 fps

GTA 5 1080p

AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GDDR5

106 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 4 GB GDDR6

100 fps

AMD Radeon RX 570 4 GB GDDR5

100 fps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB GDDR5

98 fps

AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5

98 fps

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