GeForce GTX 980 Overview

GeForce GTX 980
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 980

Core Configuration

GPU GM204
Architecture Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 2048 : 128 : 64
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 4616.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 4096 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 224.40 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce RTX 4090
    807%
  • GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB
    704%
  • Radeon RX 7900 XTX
    661%
  • GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
    604%
  • Radeon RX 7900 XT
    591%
  • GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
    580%
  • GeForce RTX 3090
    564%
  • Radeon RX 6950 XT
    541%
  • GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
    506%
  • Radeon RX 6900 XT
    500%
  • GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
    489%
  • GeForce RTX 4070
    473%
  • Radeon RX 6800 XT
    462%
  • GeForce RTX 3080
    459%
  • Radeon RX 6800
    410%
  • GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
    392%
  • Radeon RX 6750 XT
    388%
  • GeForce RTX 3070
    348%
  • GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
    343%
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT
    324%
  • GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
    312%
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
    306%
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    269%
  • Radeon RX 7600
    260%
  • Radeon RX 6650 XT
    257%
  • Geforce GTX TITAN Xp
    252%
  • GeForce RTX 2080
    250%
  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    246%
  • GeForce RTX 3060
    245%
  • Radeon VII
    241%
  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    239%
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    232%
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    231%
  • GeForce RTX 2060 Super
    209%
  • Radeon RX 5700
    205%
  • Radeon RX 6600
    198%
  • GeForce RTX 2070
    194%
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    183%
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
    178%
  • GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
    177%
  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    171%
  • GeForce RTX 2060
    167%
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    165%
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    159%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    153%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    150%
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    144%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    131%
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    130%
  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    127%
  • Radeon RX 590
    123%
  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    120%
  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    118%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    112%
  • Radeon RX 580
    112%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    111%
  • Radeon RX 480
    102%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    101%
  • Radeon RX 570
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    100%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    98%
  • Radeon RX 6400
    94%
  • Radeon RX 470
    90%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    84%
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    80%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    65%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    58%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 980 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 19 Sep 2014. The graphics card houses the GM204 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 5,200 million transistors on a 28 nm, 398 mm2 die.

GeForce GTX 980 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

GeForce GTX 980GeForce GTX 1650 SUPERGeForce GTX 1650Radeon RX 580Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 980GeForce GTX 1650 SUPERGeForce GTX 1650Radeon RX 580Radeon RX 570
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Shader units2048128089623042048
ROPs6432323232
Graphics processorGM204TU116TU107EllesmereEllesmere
Process size28 nm12 nm12 nm14 nm14 nm
Memory4096 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR6 (1500 MHz
12000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective)
8192 Mb GDDR5 (2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit128 bit256 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth224.40 Gb/s192.00 Gb/s128.00 Gb/s256.00 Gb/s211.20 Gb/s
Release date19 Sep 201422 Nov 201930 Apr 20191 Apr 20171 Apr 2017

Benchmarks

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    66
  • Radeon RX 580
    59
  • Radeon RX 570
    52
  • GeForce GTX 980
    52
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    42
  • Radeon RX 580
    38
  • Radeon RX 570
    34
  • GeForce GTX 980
    34
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    27

FPS (higher is better)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 580
    19
  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    18
  • Radeon RX 570
    17
  • GeForce GTX 980
    17

FPS (higher is better)