NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Aug 2021
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
562 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
3328
TMUs
128
104
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
26
Tensor Cores
—
104
RT Cores
—
26
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA106
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
GA106-850-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
70W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.