NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA Rubin GPU

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA 2014-09
G

NVIDIA Rubin GPU

NVIDIA 2026-01

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2014
Jan 2026
Generation
GeForce 900
Server Rubin
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 6.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
700 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
2267 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2695 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
288GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM4
Memory Bus
256bit
16384bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
22.1TB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
28672
TMUs
128
896
ROPs
64
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
128 MB
SM Count
-
224
Tensor Cores
-
896

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
54.41 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
2031.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
130.0 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
32.50 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
260.0 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM204
GR100
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Rubin
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
3 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
336 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
1456 mm²

Board Design

TDP
165W
2300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
10.7
Shader Model
6.4
N/A