NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal 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 X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1531MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
TITAN X Pascal
+120%
10.97 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
4.981 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
TITAN X Pascal
+125%
9844
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
TITAN X Pascal
+134%
4812
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
TITAN X Pascal
+133%
42
GeForce GTX 980
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
TITAN X Pascal
+122%
78
GeForce GTX 980
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
TITAN X Pascal
+106%
128
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 2160p
TITAN X Pascal
+63%
98
GeForce GTX 980
60
GTA 5 1440p
TITAN X Pascal
+67%
104
GeForce GTX 980
62
GTA 5 1080p
TITAN X Pascal
+88%
188
GeForce GTX 980
100
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1417 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.4GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
224
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
147.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
342.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
171.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.97 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
342.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
165W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP102
GPU Name
GM204
GP102-400-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
11.8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
471 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
