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ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 4096x2160 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is 1.431 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 5.86 TFLOPS.

FP32: 5.86TFLOPS
Boost Clock: 1.43GHz
Memory: 4GB GDDR5
TDP: 165 W

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Technical details

GPU

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is equipped with 16 execution and 2048 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.86 TFLOPS is achieved.

Based on: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Chip: GM204-400-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)
Streaming Multiprocessors: 16
Shader: 2048
Render Output Units: 64
Texture Units: 128

Memory

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s is achieved. In total, 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size: 4 GB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Clock: 1.753 GHz
Memory Speed: 7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 224 GB/s
Memory Interface: 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition with 1.317 GHz (base clock) or with 1.431 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock: 1.317 GHz+17 %
Boost Clock: 1.431 GHz+18 %
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition has 2 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

TDP: 165 W
Tjunction max: 98 °C
PCIe-Power: 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type: Axial
Fan 1: 2 x 100 mm
Cooler-Type: Air cooling
Noise (Idle): 0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays: 4
HDCP: 2.2
HDMI: 1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort: 3x DP 1.2
DVI: 1

Featureset

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution: 4096x2160
DirectX: 12_1
Raytracing: No
DLSS / FSR: No
LED: Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

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

Dimensions

The dimensions of the ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition are 297 mm in length, 152 mm in height and 41 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length: 297 mm
Height: 152 mm
Width: 41 mm
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready: No

Additional data

The ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q1/2015.

GPU Interface: PCIe 3 x 16
Release date: Q1/2015
Launch Price: 749 $
Structure size: 28 nm
Part-no: GOLD20TH-GTX980-P-4GD5

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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 Rank 4,512 / 5,633

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition4 GB GDDR5
2,005
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Average of gpu group
1,925

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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 Rank 4,461 / 5,255

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition4 GB GDDR5
37,705
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Average of gpu group
32,921

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,114 / 5,233

ASUS GeForce GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition4 GB GDDR5
45,446
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Average of gpu group
40,046

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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.