NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1733MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +78%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce GTX 1080 +74%

7536

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce GTX 1080 +77%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce GTX 1080 +77%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1080 +59%

99

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 +7%

60

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce GTX 1080 +19%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

154

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

180W

450 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

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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