NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +357%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GM204

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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