NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GS 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

2040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +22540%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 GS

0.022 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce 9300 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

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

333 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

8

128

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G98S

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

86 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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