GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
61
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
GM200
NV38
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
October 2003
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
475 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
-
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
74 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
3.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
30.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-