NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770 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 980 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1216MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 770

3.333 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +49%

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 770

2137

GeForce GTX 980 +102%

4324

GeForce GTX 770

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1046 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

34.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

138.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.333 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

138.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM204

GK104-425-A2

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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