NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2016
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 10
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
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Shading Units
2560
2048
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
GM204
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
180W
165W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-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
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
7,565
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
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Battlefield 5 1080p
128
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
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Battlefield 5 2160p
52
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Battlefield 5 1440p
97
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GTA 5 2160p
56
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GTA 5 1440p
74
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GTA 5 1080p
154
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.