NVIDIA · Maxwell (derived from codename prefix) · 2014
GeForce GTX 980
GeForce GTX 980: 4 GB GDDR5, 165 W, 2,048 CUDA cores. Launched September 18, 2014 at $549.
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Power
- 165 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory4 GB
31 of 143 in GeForce GTX
Power165 W
52 of 154 by higher draw in GeForce GTX
CUDA cores2,048
16 of 158 in GeForce GTX
Launch price$549
18 of 92 in GeForce GTX
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 4 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 1,753 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 224.4 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 2,048
- SM count
- 16
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 64
- FP32
- 4,616.19 GFLOPS
- FP64
- 144.26 GFLOPS
- Pixel fill rate
- 72.13 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 144.26 GT/s
Clocks
- Boost clock
- 1,127 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 165 W
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 549 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Maxwell (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- GM204-400-A1
- Transistors
- 5.2 billion
- Die size
- 398 mm²
- Series
- GeForce GTX
- Launch date
- September 18, 2014
Not recorded by the source: generation, process, base clock and bus interface.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce GTX 980 ranks 18th of 121 for FP32 throughput and 31st of 143 for memory capacity. Its 165 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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