NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1100%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 545

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GT 545

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

2048

Shading Units

144

128

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF116

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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