NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA · 2014-09
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA · 2014-09
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1664
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
64
56
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GM204
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
148W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.