NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Graphics Card and GM204 GPU Detailed - 64 ROPs, HDMI 2.0, 2048 CUDA Cores and 5.2 Billion Transistors Operating At 165W

The concluding specifications and the architectural details regarding the GM204 GPU fused inside NVIDIA's next generation and flagship Maxwell graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 have been revealed by Videocardz. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 launch in just three days on Friday only we take already started looking at preliminary performance results, several non-reference graphics cards from AIB vendors along with tons of new information regarding these chips.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Graphics Carte du jour and GM204 GPU Detailed

Starting with the GM204 GPU which makes use of the second generation Maxwell core architecture that has faster per cadre functioning than outset generation Maxwell based chips (GM107) before it and has several new features which deliver meliorate performance and great power efficency making GeForce GTX 980 one of the most efficient flagship offering in history. This is all achieved with the 28nm process node so ane tin can imagine about the numbers we tin can expect when NVIDIA hops to an fifty-fifty lower procedure in the futurity. However, people are nevertheless worried about the fact that non being on a 20nm process doesn't make the GTX 980 every bit a worthy contender to the Kepler architecture but that's not truthful since the card has achieved some peachy feats and we will be able to meet that in the functioning reviews which arrive this weekend.

Alright, so the GM204 has two variants, the GM204-400 which is fused on the GeForce GTX 980 and the GM204-200 which is fused on the GeForce GTX 970. Nosotros know a lot well-nigh the GeForce GTX 970 since a few weeks now but the existent flagship office to be discussed is the GeForce GTX 980's GM204-400 bit. The GM204 chip features 4 GPC (Graphics Processing Clusters) which feature four SMM blocks each. These blocks include four logic units each which consist of 32 cores so in total, a single SMM unit results in 128 Cores while the 16 blocks available on the GM204-400 scrap equate to 2048 CUDA Cores. The GM204-200 has three less SMM units which result in a lower core count of 1664 thus making it around as fast as the GeForce GTX 780 while the GTX 980 will tackle the GeForce GTX 980 with a good xv-twenty% functioning lead.

The well-nigh disquisitional details of the chip are the transistor number, nosotros all call back that the GK110 chip was a operation and computing fauna at 7.08 Billion transistors while the GK104 included 3.54 Billion transistors. The GM204 includes 5.2 Billion transistors crammed inside a die that measures effectually 398 mm2 just 2 mm2 shy of 400mm2. The GK104 and GK110 measure out at around 294 mm2 and 581 mm2 respectively. The die size has been increased a lot compared to GK104 and that's the generational predecessor of the card. The GK110 volition exist replaced by GM200 simply that is far from launch at the moment but NVIDIA has managed to include more on the 28nm process withal keeping the power consumption at only 165W on the GTX 980 and 148W for the GTX 970 which is simply mind extraordinary.

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Then we take another update when information technology comes to ROPs and TMUs. The Texture mapping units on the GM204 are 128 which are the same as GTX 680 but the Raster Functioning units are increased to 64 which are twice the amount featured on GK104. This is really a larger update to GK110 as well but the GK110 does come with a very high TMU count of 240. NVIDIA compensates this by clocking the GM204 chip hence resulting in a higher per clock performance output when it comes to texture fill rate. Maxwell was also meant to meliorate the style GPU handles bandwidth and they are limiting the bandwidth dependancy of their cards by adding more than cache of 2 MB which is 512 KB L2 more than GK110. The GK104 had only 256 KB of L2 cache then a major update there.

The theoretical compute of the chip in single precision would be rated effectually four.6 TFLOPs which is really close to the GK110 which pumps out 5.1 TFLOps while the 1144 GT/south texture make full charge per unit is a bit low but the pixel fillrate is considerably higher at 72.i GP/s compared to 53.three GP/south on GTX 780 Ti.

NVIDIA has some new software side enhancements through the hardware implemented in Maxwell which include Dynamic Super Resolution which is basically a second version of down sampling that functions to increase video quality at 1080P that matches 4K resolution.  There's also Delta Colour Compression which is similar to the color compression nosotros saw on AMD'southward Tonga simply a more than refined version which saves images in local memory to be used after to increase memory efficiency. So at that place'southward Multi-Pixel Programming Sampling technology which improves randomization of each sample and reduces quantification artifacts for better geometry processing and anti aliasing filtering. An update on the brandish side is that GeForce GTX 980 adopts the HDMI 2.0 standard which goes in well with the new display standard of 3 Brandish Ports 1,2, i DVI, one HDMI outputs set by NVIDIA for their flagship offering.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Specifications At a Glance:

So the final specifications of the GeForce GTX 980 include 2048 CUDA Cores, 128 TMUs, 64 ROPs. The core clock is maintained at 1126 MHz core and 1216 MHz boost while the memory is clocked in at 7 GHz effective clock which results in 224 GB/s bandwidth which might exist enough thanks to the lower bandwidth dependency and increased efficiency. The TDP of the bill of fare is set at 165W while the power is fed through dual half-dozen-Pin power connectors.

The GeForce GTX 980 is making use of an update revision of the cooler introduced on the GeForce GTX Titan Black with a all black naming logo etched on the shroud about the I/O plate and a all black heatsink which tin can be spotted from the mirror cutting out in the center of the shroud. The bill of fare obviously makes of vapor chamber which is cooler off by a blower fan. We were unable to discover the Dual Axial fan design which NVIDIA had patented back a few months and was rumored to be a role of the new graphics card series but I look the bill of fare even as it is will do a great job cooling the card because information technology can dissipate oestrus of up to 275W while GeForce GTX 980 will have a maximum thermal dissipation power of only under 180W. Then that's a ton of cooling being supplied to the cadre and we tin wait massive overclocking headroom for a card which is already clocked past the 1050 MHz bulwark.

Back to the cooler design, the NVTTM does include some pocket-size changes forth the display ports isolating it within the shroud entirely. One of the changes I like the about is the addition of the backplate which is carried over from the GeForce GTX Titan Z. The card features two SLI Gold fingers which will allow 4-Way SLI Multi GPU functionality. The GeForce GTX 980 is fed power through dual 6-Pivot connectors and while in that location is infinite for an 8-Pin connector, NVIDIA volition just feature two 6-Pin as a reference design leaving its AIB partners to practice the rest in the class of custom designs. Brandish outputs include DVI, HDMI and 3 display ports which is one reason for the unusually large size of the brandish connector. The bracket is also updated with a new layout since the cut outs for frazzle look like to the ones featured on the GeForce GTX Titan Z.

The PCB has been modified to a more brute design, NVIDIA can be seen using eight Samsung K4G41325FC-HC28 128M x 32. A total of viii of these modules have been featured which equate to 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM across a 256-bit motorcoach. The voltage controller has been moved beneath the power connectors and the power commitment includes five Phases compared to vi on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. At the same time, nosotros can see a big array of VRMs aside the chokes which will deliver unprecedented amount of overclocking performance fifty-fifty on the reference designs.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 Specifications:

	GeForce GTX 470	GeForce GTX 480	GeForce GTX 570	GeForce GTX 580	GeForce GTX 670	GeForce GTX 680	GeForce GTX 770	GeForce GTX 780	GeForce GTX 780 Ti	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 980
Codename	GF100	GF100	GF110	GF110	GK104	GK104	GK104	GK110	GK110	GM204	GM204
Procedure	40nm	40nm	40nm	40nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
GPU Cadre	Fermi	Fermi	Fermi	Fermi	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Kepler	Maxwell	Maxwell
SM Units	xiv x 32	fifteen 10 32	15 x 32	sixteen x 32	7 10 192	eight x 192	8 10 192	12 x 192	xiv ten 192	13 10 128	16 x 128
CUDA Cores	448	480	480	512	1344	1536	1536	2304	2880	1664	2048
ROPS	forty	48	40	48	32	32	32	48	48	TBC	64
TMUs	56	60	sixty	64	112	128	128	192	240	TBC	128
Core Clock	607 MHz	700 MHz	732 MHz	772 MHz	915 MHz	1006 MHz	1046 MHz	863 MHz	875 MHz	1051 MHz	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1215 MHz	1401 MHz (Shader Clock)	1464 MHz	1544 MHz (Shader Clock)	980 MHz	1058 MHz	1085 MHz	900 MHz	928 MHz	1178 MHz	1216 MHz
Retentiveness	1.ii GB GDDR5	i.5 GB GDDR5	1.2 GB GDDR5	1.5 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	ii GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	three GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5
Retention Bus	320-Scrap	384-Bit	320-Bit	384-Fleck	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	384-Chip	384-Flake	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	three.34 GB/s	iii.69 GB/due south	3.fourscore GB/s	4.0 GB/s	half dozen.0 GHz	vi.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	vi.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	133.34 GB/due south	177.4 GB/s	152.00 GB/due south	192.4 GB/due south	192.0 GB/s	192.0 GB/s	224.5 GB/s	288.6 GB/due south	336.0 GB/s	224.five GB/southward	224.v GB/s
Texture Fill Rate GT/s	34	42	43.92	49.41	102.5	128.8	134	166	210	145.0	TBC
TDP	215W	250W	219W	244W	170W	192W	220W	250W	250W	148W	175W
Ability Connectors	eight+6 Pin	viii+6 Pin	6+half-dozen Pin	8+6 Pin	half dozen+six Pin	6+6 Pivot	8+6 Pin	8+half-dozen Pin	8+half dozen Pin	half-dozen+6 Pin	half dozen+half dozen Pivot
DirectX 12 Support	Yes	Yes	Yep	Yes	Aye	Yes	Yes	Yes	Aye	Yes	Yes
Launch	March 26th 2022	March 26th 2022	December 7th 2022	November 09 2022	May tenth 2022	March 22nd 2022	May 30th 2022	May 23rd 2022	Dec 2022	18th September 2022	18th September 2022
Price	$349 US	$499 US	$349 United states of america	$499 Us	$349 US	$499 United states of america	$349 US	$499 US	$699 US	$299 Reference $329+ Custom	$549 Reference $549+ Custom

 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Renders:

Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-graphics-card-gm204-gpu-detailed-64-rops-hdmi-20-2048-cuda-cores-52-billion-transistors-operating-165w/

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