GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 460 SE - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

GeForce GTX 980

11458

GeForce GTX 460 SE

2061

GeForce GTX 980

GeForce GTX 460 SE

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GM204

GF104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

November 2010

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

6-pin & 6-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1216 MHz

Core clock speed

1064 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

2048

288

Floating-point performance

4,981 gflops

748.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

288

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

104 °C

Texture fill rate

144 billion/sec

31.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

1700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

108.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI

Number of display connectors

Multi monitor support

4 displays

VGA аnalog display support

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

BatteryBoost

GameStream

GameWorks

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

Optimus