ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum Benchmark and Specs

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum has 16 execution units with 2048 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.24 TFLOPS.

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

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum is equipped with 4 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The memory clock of the graphics card is 1.753 GHz and the speed is 7.01 Gbps.

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

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.178 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.279 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock

1.178 GHz+5 %

Boost Clock

1.279 GHz+5 %

Overclocking

Yes

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 165 W.

TDP

165 W

Tjunction max

98 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum are cooled by a Hybrid cooling.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 90 mm

Cooler-Type

Hybrid cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.2

HDMI

1x HDMI 2.0

DisplayPort

3x DP 1.2

DVI

1

With the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 4096x2160 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_1 is supported.

Max. resolution

4096x2160

DirectX

12_1

Raytracing

No

DLSS / FSR

No

LED

No LED lighting

This area lists the video codecs that the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

No

VP8

Decode

VP9

No

AV1

No

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 27 mm long, 137 mm high and 41 mm wide.

Length

27 mm

Height

137 mm

Width

41 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 980 Platinum was released in Q4/2014 at a price of 599 $. The graphics card manufactured in 28 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3 x 16

Release date

Q4/2014

Launch Price

599 $

Structure size

28 nm

Part-no

POSEIDON-GTX980-P-4GD5