Gainward GeForce GTX 980
Benchmark and Specs


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Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the Gainward GeForce GTX 980. 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 980 is 1.216 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 4.98 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with 16 execution and 2048 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 4.98 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
Raytracing Cores: 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 980 with 1.127 GHz (base clock) or with 1.216 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock: 1.127 GHz
Boost Clock: 1.216 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock:
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 has 2 x 6-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

TDP: 165 W
TDP (up): --
Tjunction max: 98 °C
PCIe-Power: 2 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 is equipped with 1 Radial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type: Radial
Fan 1: 1 x 65 mm
Fan 2: --
Cooler-Type: Air cooling
Noise (Idle): 0 dB / Silent
Noise (Load): --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce GTX 980, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

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

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 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: No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the Gainward GeForce GTX 980 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 980 are 267 mm in length, 112 mm in height and -- in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length: 267 mm
Height: 112 mm
Width: --
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
Weight: --
SFF-Ready: No

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 980 is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q3/2014.

GPU Interface: PCIe 3 x 16
Release date: Q3/2014
Launch Price: 499 $
Structure size: 28 nm
Part-no: 426018336-3347
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

Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Gainward GeForce GTX 980
4 GB GDDR5
1842
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Average of gpu group
1925

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

Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Gainward GeForce GTX 980
4 GB GDDR5
32043
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Average of gpu group
32921

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Gainward GeForce GTX 980 Gainward GeForce GTX 980
4 GB GDDR5
38621
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Average of gpu group
40046

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)

More benchmarks

In order to determine the performance of a graphics card, so-called "benchmarks" are carried out. The benchmark software carries out special calculations to determine the performance of a graphics card. We use so-called theoretical or synthetic benchmarks (e.g. 3D Mark) as well as real game benchmarks. To ensure real comparability of the results, we pay attention to the correct execution of the benchmarks as well as the condition of the graphics card and the system.

We use the following benchmarks to measure the performance of a graphics card:

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