NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

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

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
795 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
224.4GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
58
-
Shading Units
7424
2048
TMUs
232
128
ROPs
80
64
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
48 MB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
313.2 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.04 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
20.04 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
313.2 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
AD104
GM204
GPU Variant
GN21-X9
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
295 mm²
398 mm²

Board Design

TDP
60W
165W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.4