NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce GTX 980 is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 28 nm process and based on the GM204 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name
GM204
Model number
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
Die Size
398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 19th, 2014
Family
GeForce 900
Production
End-of-life
Launch Price
549 USD
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units
2048
TMUs
128
ROPs
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
Width
111 mm
4.4 inches
Height
40 mm
1.6 inches
Thermal design power (TDP)
165 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
Display Connectors
1x DVI
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Board Number
PG401

API support

DirectX
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.1
Shader Model
6.4
CUDA
5.2
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980: GPU Specs & Benchmarks