NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GM204
GPU variant GP104-410-A1 GM204-400-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 5,200 million
Die size 314 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 20th, 2017 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 499 USD 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database 146 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1607 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1733 MHz 1216 MHz
Memory clock 1376 MHz 11 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 352.3 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 128
ROPs 64 64
SM count 20
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 2 MB
SMM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 110.9 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture rate 277.3 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 8.873 TFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 277.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 180 W 165 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Board number PG413 SKU 5 PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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