NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 104% (2475MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +612%

35.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +386%

21059

GeForce GTX 980

4330

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +422%

94

GeForce GTX 980

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +425%

184

GeForce GTX 980

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +345%

276

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +163%

158

GeForce GTX 980

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +154%

158

GeForce GTX 980

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +90%

190

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce RTX 4070 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

1980 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7168

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM204

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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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