NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2025
Jun 2015
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
982 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1957 MHz
1076 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
336.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
34
—
Shading Units
4352
2816
TMUs
136
176
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
136
—
RT Cores
34
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
32 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
125.2 GPixel/s
103.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
266.2 GTexel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
17.03 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
17.03 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
266.2 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB206
GM200
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
21.9 billion
8 billion
Die Size
181 mm²
601 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM200-310-A1
Board Design
TDP
70W
250W
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
CUDA
12.0
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
5,789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,807
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
75
Blender
—
544
GTA 5 2160p
—
72
GTA 5 1440p
—
74
GTA 5 1080p
—
120
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.