NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 102% (2460MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +203%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980

4322

GeForce RTX 4060 +145%

10620

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

18

GeForce RTX 4060 +155%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

35

GeForce RTX 4060 +168%

94

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 4060 +167%

166

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 980

60

GeForce RTX 4060 +36%

82

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 980

62

GeForce RTX 4060 +45%

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 4060 +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

2048

Shading Units

3072

128

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD107

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

159 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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