NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 43.20GB/s)

1904 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +966%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 440 OEM

0.467 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce GT 440 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

43.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

144

128

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.860 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

466.6 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.88 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF106

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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