NVIDIA RTX A1000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA RTX A1000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1462MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A1000 +35%

6.737 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX A1000

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1462 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

6.737 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.737 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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