GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and GeForce 9800 GTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

GeForce 9800 GTX

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

G92

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

March 2008

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

675 MHz

CUDA cores

128

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

128

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

140 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

Multi monitor support

HDMI

Via Adapter

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

12_1

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

Shader Model

4.0

Vulkan

N/A