NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 275 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 127.0GB/s)

1808 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 219W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +639%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 275

0.674 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 275

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1134 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

127.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

240

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.72 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.64 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

673.9 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

219W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT200B

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-105-B3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

470 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

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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