NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Mar 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1080 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1665 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
10240
TMUs
128
320
ROPs
64
96
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
6 MB
SM Count
—
80
Tensor Cores
—
320
RT Cores
—
80
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
159.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
34.10 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
34.10 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GA102
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
230W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
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
Benchmark
OctaneBench
—
596
Blender
—
4,316
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.