NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1650MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +44%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +99%

8642

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +100%

36

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +82%

64

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +48%

92

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +1%

61

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +38%

86

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +74%

174

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

-

2176

Shading Units

2048

136

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

105.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GM204

TU106-410-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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