GeForce GTX 980 and M28 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980

M28

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

GM204

M28

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

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Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

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SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1216 MHz

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Core clock speed

1064 MHz

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CUDA cores

2048

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Floating-point performance

4,981 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

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Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

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Texture fill rate

144 billion/sec

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

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Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

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

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Multi monitor support

4 displays

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VGA аnalog display support

+

-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

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G-SYNC support

+

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.1

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

BatteryBoost

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-