NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2000

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

NV15

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

-

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