NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (2505MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +878%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

2048

Shading Units

9728

128

TMUs

304

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD103

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

379 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

6.6

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