NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 102% (2175MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+341%
26.73 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
5789
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+147%
14340
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
2807
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+138%
6708
Blender
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
544
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+770%
4737
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
133
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
+269%
492
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
160bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
2816
Shading Units
6144
176
TMUs
192
96
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
130W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
AD104
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
