NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1216MHz vs 1178MHz)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
+27%
4.981 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce GTX 980
+19%
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce GTX 980
+21%
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce GTX 980
+20%
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce GTX 980
+16%
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce GTX 980
+55%
62
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce GTX 980
+42%
60
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce GTX 980
+40%
62
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce GTX 980
+2%
100
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1664
Shading Units
2048
104
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
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-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
165W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM204
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
