Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 User Manual

GeForce GTX 980 Whitepaper
Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Extraordinary Gaming Performance for the Latest Displays .................................................................... 3
Incredible Energy Efficiency ...................................................................................................................... 4
Dramatic Leap Forward In Lighting with VXGI .......................................................................................... 5
GM204 Hardware Architecture In-Depth ..................................................................................................... 6
Maxwell Streaming Multiprocessor .......................................................................................................... 8
PolyMorph Engine 3.0 ............................................................................................................................... 9
GM204 Memory Subsystem ................................................................................................................... 10
New Display and Video Engines .............................................................................................................. 11
Maxwell: Enabling The Next Frontier in PC Graphics ................................................................................. 13
Hardware Acceleration for VXGI – Multi-Projection and Conservative Raster ...................................... 21
Tiled Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Raster Ordered View ............................................................................................................................... 24
DirectX 12 ................................................................................................................................................ 25
Advancing the State-Of-The-Art in Image Quality ...................................................................................... 27
Dynamic Super Resolution ...................................................................................................................... 29
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 31
LEGAL NOTICE ............................................................................................................................................. 32

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Specifications

General

GPU Architecture	Maxwell
CUDA Cores	2048
Base Clock	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1216 MHz
Memory Speed	7 Gbps
Memory Clock	1750 MHz
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	224 GB/s
VRAM	4 GB GDDR5
TDP	165 W
Recommended System Power	500 W
Power Connectors	2 x 6-pin
DirectX	12 API
OpenGL	4.5
GPU	GM204
Process Size	28 nm
Transistors	5.2 billion
Die Size	398 mm²
Texture Units	128
ROP Units	64
OpenCL	1.2
PCI Express Version	3.0
Maximum Digital Resolution	5120x3200
Maximum Display Outputs	4
HDCP Support	Yes
SLI Support	Yes