The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
Memory
Memory
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Memory Size
4 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
1.750 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
14.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
448 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.
The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Base Clock
1.126 GHz
1.515 GHz
Boost Clock
1.216 GHz
1.710 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 has a turbo clock of 1.216 GHz. The turbo frequency of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 is 1.710 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
TDP
165 W
215 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
88 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 6-Pin
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 has 2 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Fan-Type
Radial
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
1 x 75 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PNY GeForce GTX 980 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
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USB-C
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1
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Max. resolution
4096x2160
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
No
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
No
Decode
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
PNY GeForce GTX 980
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080
Length
267 mm
283 mm
Height
111 mm
139 mm
Width
38 mm
41 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The PNY GeForce GTX 980 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
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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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