NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada 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 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

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

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

16128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada +1728%

91.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

RTX 6000 Ada

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

142

2048

Shading Units

18176

128

TMUs

568

64

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

AD102

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

AD102

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

609 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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