GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF
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GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF. 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF is 1.418 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 5.81 TFLOPS.
FP32
5.81TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.42GHz
Memory
4GB GDDR5
TDP
165 W

Technical details

GPU

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF is equipped with 16 execution and 2048 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 5.81 TFLOPS is achieved.

GPU Chip
GM204-400-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)
Streaming Multiprocessors
16
Shader
2048
Render Output Units
64
Texture Units
128

Memory

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF with 1.304 GHz (base clock) or with 1.418 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.304 GHz+16 %
Boost Clock
1.418 GHz+17 %
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
1 x 90 mm
Fan 2
2 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF, 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF 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 GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF are 308 mm in length, 129 mm in height and 49 mm in width. Thus 3 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
308 mm
Height
129 mm
Width
49 mm
Width (Slots)
3 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF 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
649 $
Structure size
28 nm
Part-no
98NQH6DND2TX
GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF
1.304 GHz · 4 GB · 165 W TDP
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Benchmark results

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 4,464 / 5,255

  1. GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOFGALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF4 GB GDDR5
    37,384
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Average of gpu group
    32,921

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,115 / 5,233

  1. GALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOFGALAX GeForce GTX 980 HOF4 GB GDDR5
    45,058
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Average of gpu group
    40,046

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 10 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980.

104GPU points (Ø)
Rank 224 / 537 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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