NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

GeForce GTX 980

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Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2004

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

NV41

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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