NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2023
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 40 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1230 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
4608
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 MB
SM Count
-
36
Tensor Cores
-
144
RT Cores
-
36

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
59.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
177.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
11.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
177.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.34 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
AD106
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GN21-X6
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
22.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
188 mm²

Board Design

TDP
165W
35W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.9
Shader Model
6.4
6.8