GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Quadro FX 3800 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Quadro FX 3800

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

N16E-GXX SLI

GT200B

Market segment

Laptop

Workstation

Release date

September 2015

March 2009

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1228 MHz

Core clock speed

1126 MHz

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

462.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

10400 Million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

192

Power consumption (TDP)

330 Watt

108 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3500 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12_1

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.3

OpenCL

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

Vulkan

N/A