GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
1306
GeForce GTX 980
+281%
4981
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
8
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
13.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
54.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
108.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
3x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF114
GPU Name
GM204
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
