NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
May 2016
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2560
TMUs
128
160
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
138.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GP104-400-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
180W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
7,565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
3,446
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
97
GTA 5 2160p
-
56
GTA 5 1440p
-
74
GTA 5 1080p
-
154