NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

19712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +2102%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

-

21760

Shading Units

2048

680

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

64

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

165W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GM204

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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