KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC)
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) has 16384 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.54 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 83.07 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.35 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.55 TFLOPS.

GPU

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 128 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
AD102-300-A1 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Maxwell 2.0
128 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
16384 Shader 2048
176 Render Output Units 64
512 Texture Units 128
128 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) is equipped with a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.313 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

24 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
1008 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) has a turbo clock of 2.535 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING is 1.354 GHz.

2.235 GHz Base Clock 1.253 GHz
2.535 GHz Boost Clock 1.354 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.33 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

450 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
3 x 102 mm Fan 1 3 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) is 74 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING is 74 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

352 mm Length 272 mm
153 mm Height 113 mm
74 mm Width 37 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, KFA2 GeForce RTX 4090 ST V2 (1-Click OC) was released in Q4/2022.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 3-WAY SLI GAMING published in Q4/2014 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no GV-N980X3WA-4GD
Q4/2022 Release date Q4/2014
1,599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 549 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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