Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2014 Aug 2012
Generation GeForce 900 GeForce 600
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1127 MHz 915 MHz
Boost Clock 1216 MHz 980 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 224.4GB/s 144.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2048 1344
TMUs 128 112
ROPs 64 24
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 2 MB 384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 77.82 GPixel/s 27.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 155.6 GTexel/s 109.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.981 TFLOPS 2.634 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 155.6 GFLOPS 109.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM204 GK104
GPU Variant GM204-400-A1 GK104-300-KD-A2
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.2 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 398 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 165W 150W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.1
CUDA 5.2 3.0
Shader Model 6.4 5.1