GeForce GTX 980 vs RTX 5880 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Advantages
Lower TDP (165W vs 285W)
RTX 5880 Ada Generation Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 102% (2460MHz vs 1216MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
12032 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
4981
RTX 5880 Ada Generation
+1290%
69270
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2024
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
975 MHz
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
2460 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
110
2048
Shading Units
14080
128
TMUs
440
64
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
440
-
RT Cores
110
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
72 MB
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
433.0 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1082 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
69.27 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
69.27 TFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1082 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
285W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD102
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
AD102
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
609 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
