NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2130MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +140%

12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1620 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2130 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

88

-

RT Cores

22

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.2 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.00 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.00 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

70W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD107

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

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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