NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Feb 2015
Generation
GeForce 900
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
896
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
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14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
112.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Saturn
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Saturn XT(216-0843024)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.