NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 900
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Neptune
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.1