GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GeForce 256 DDR - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce 256 DDR
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
GM200
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
December 1999
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
120 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
0.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
300 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x VGA
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
7.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-