NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1382%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

2048

Shading Units

112

128

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G92

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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