NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 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 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

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

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +878%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

-

9728

Shading Units

2048

304

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

64

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM204

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

379 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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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