NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1380MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +605%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1380 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

11.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

22.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

706.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

29.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM204

GP108-200-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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