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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Representative GIGABYTE product image. Board design, dimensions and power limits can vary by model.Source coverage for this specification group is incomplete.

At a glance

Launch date
Architecture
Maxwell
CUDA cores
2,048
Memory
4 GB GDDR5
TGP
165 W

Hardware specifications

Compute

CUDA cores
2,048

Clocks

Base clock
1,126 MHz
Boost clock
1,216 MHz

Memory

Capacity
4 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Bus width
256-bit
Bandwidth
224 GB/s

Power

TGP
165 W
Recommended PSU
500 W
Power connectors
2x 6-pin

Physical

Interface
PCI Express 3.0
Slots
2
Display connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Before you buy

Fit and power planning

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Published slot width
2 slots
TGP
165 W
Recommended PSU
500 W
Power connectors
2x 6-pin
Display connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

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Measured evidence

Market and rendering evidence

Historical launch pricing for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 preserves source terms such as USD, MSRP and SEP. It is shown separately from one workload-specific community benchmark.

Blender Cycles rendering

292.8 estimated samples per minute

Backend
OptiX
Confidence
Provisional
Submission count
5 submissions
Cohort
Blender 4.5.0 on Windows using OptiX across the standard Blender Benchmark scenes

This is a Cycles rendering community median in estimated samples per minute. It is not gaming FPS or an overall GPU rating.

Open Blender Open Data source

Retrieved

Open Blender Open Data methodology

Evidence record

Sources and verification

Specifications for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 were checked against the linked source material. Last verified .

NVIDIA Newsroom confirms that GTX 980 cards were available on 2014-09-18. NVIDIA publishes 165 W under Graphics Card Power (W); the structured field follows the repository NVIDIA convention and labels it TGP. Exact NVIDIA reference dimensions are 4.376 inches high, 10.5 inches long and Dual-width. Metric length and width remain absent because the reviewed first-party source does not publish them and this research does not calculate values. Dual-width is represented as two slots. Full raw bandwidth, reference geometry and output data rely on an archived NVIDIA exact-model page. The image context comes from a reviewed owner-supplied local GIGABYTE manufacturer image and is not asserted by these specification sources.

Where to buy

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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ASUS Strix GTX 980 OC 4GB

Part number: STRIX-GTX980-DC2OC-4GD5

Linked variant: 4 GB GDDR5

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