NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1216MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +89%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 +136%

4322

GeForce GTX 670

1824

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

1344

128

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

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4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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