GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

GeForce 7800 GTX

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

G70

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

June 2005

Interface

-

PCIe 1.0 x16

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

430 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

302 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

-

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

86 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

10.32

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12_1

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

-

N/A

OpenGL

-

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

-

N/A