The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 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.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 60 % faster than the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
Memory
Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.251 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
10.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Base Clock
1.607 GHz
1.253 GHz
Boost Clock
1.733 GHz
1.354 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
--
1.33 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 1.354 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
TDP
180 W
165 W
Tjunction max
94 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
2 x 8-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE 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.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Fan-Type
Radial
Axial (Radiator)
Fan 1
1 x 70 mm
1 x 120 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
AIO water cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is cooled by a AIO water cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.2
DVI
1
2
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_1
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
No
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
Length
267 mm
272 mm
Height
111 mm
113 mm
Width
38 mm
37 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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