Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Nov 2021
Generation GeForce 900 Radeon Instinct
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1127 MHz 1000 MHz
Boost Clock 1216 MHz 1700 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 128GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2e
Memory Bus 256bit 8192bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 3277GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2048 14080
TMUs 128 880
ROPs 64 0
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 16 MB
Compute Units 220
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 77.82 GPixel/s 0 MPixel/s
Texture Rate 155.6 GTexel/s 1496 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.981 TFLOPS 47.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 155.6 GFLOPS 47.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half) 383.0 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 Aldebaran
GPU Variant GM204-400-A1 Aldebaran XT
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 CDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 58.2 billion
Die Size 398 mm² Unknown
Board Design
TDP 165W 500W
Suggested PSU 450 W 900 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) N/A
OpenGL 4.6 N/A
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 N/A
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 N/A