NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2019
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
735 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1095 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
-
Shading Units
2944
2048
TMUs
184
128
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
368
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
70.08 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
201.5 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.89 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.447 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.5 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
GM204
GPU Variant
N18E-G3-A1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
165W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4