NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2175MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +436%

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 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

6.8

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