NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2550MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (736.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +948%

52.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +557%

28458

GeForce GTX 980

4330

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +666%

138

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +625%

254

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +383%

300

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +200%

180

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +190%

180

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2295MHz

Base Clock

1127MHz

2550MHz

Boost Clock

1216MHz

1438MHz

Memory Clock

1753MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

736.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10240

Shading Units

2048

320

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

64

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64MB

L2 Cache

2MB

Theoretical Performance

285.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

52.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

52.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

816.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM204

AD103-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45,900 million

Transistors

5,200 million

379mm²

Die Size

398mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

165W

700W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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