NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 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 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1770MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +81%

9.062 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +133%

10095

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +133%

42

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +128%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +90%

118

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +13%

68

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +54%

96

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +80%

180

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.3 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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