Averages 26 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles
26 Avg FPS Includes estimates
We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 averages 26 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 45 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 9 FPS, a 5.0x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles. Under load we logged a peak of 158W against the 165W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 20 FPS | 16 | 3.68 GB | 157 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 23 FPS | 18 | 3.68 GB | 153 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 9 FPS | 7 | 3.68 GB | 152 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 32 FPS | 26 | 3.68 GB | 158 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 34 FPS | 22 | 3.68 GB | 157 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 45 FPS | 24 | 3.68 GB | 132 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 27 FPS | 21 | 3.68 GB | 155 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 24 FPS | 18 | 3.68 GB | 142 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 18 FPS | 15 | 3.68 GB | 157 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Maxwell (GM204) |
| CUDA cores | 2,048 |
| VRAM | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,216 MHz |
| TDP | 165 W |
| Process | 28nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2014-09-19 |
| Launch MSRP | $549 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 averages 26 FPS at 1440p on our suite. We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #77 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 | 108% | 28 | |
| Intel Arc A380 | 108% | 28 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6400 | 104% | 27 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super | 100% | 26 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 | 100% | 26 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 92% | 24 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | 85% | 22 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | 77% | 20 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti | 73% | 19 |
| Transistors | 5,200 million |
| Die size | 398 mm² |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 13.1 million per mm² |
Denser than 1% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.