NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA TITAN RTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1770MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 280W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN RTX +227%

16.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

TITAN RTX +250%

15148

GeForce GTX 980

4322

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

TITAN RTX +277%

68

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

TITAN RTX +254%

124

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

TITAN RTX +177%

172

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

TITAN RTX +116%

130

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

TITAN RTX +109%

130

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

TITAN RTX +80%

180

GeForce GTX 980

100

TITAN RTX

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

72

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

2048

288

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

280W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

GM204

TU102-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

754 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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