NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2021
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
200.1GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
10
—
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
40
128
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
40
—
RT Cores
10
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.64 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
70.80 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.531 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.531 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.80 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
5.2 billion
Die Size
Unknown
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM204-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
60W
165W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
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
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.