GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs RTX A1000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
RTX A1000 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1462MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6060
RTX A1000
+11%
6737
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
727 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1462 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
18
2816
Shading Units
2304
176
TMUs
72
96
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.78 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
105.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.737 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.737 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GA107
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
