NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2014
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 600
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1032 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1502 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
144.2GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
960
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
20.64 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
GK104
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
165W
140W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.1