NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2130MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 165W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+140%
12 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
4.981 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+86%
8147
GeForce GTX 980
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+75%
3601
GeForce GTX 980
2049
Graphics Card
Feb 2024
Release Date
Sep 2014
Quadro Ada
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1620 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2130 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
22
SM Count
-
2816
Shading Units
2048
88
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
88
Tensor Cores
-
22
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
12 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
102.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
187.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
12.00 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.00 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
187.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
165W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
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
