NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 is a graphics card released on September 18, 2014, with a launch MSRP of 549 USD. It is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and uses the GM204-400 GPU chip fabricated on a 28 nm process. The card features 2048 shading units, a base clock of 1126 MHz, and a boost clock of 1216 MHz. It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 224.3 GB/s. The board power (TDP) is 165 W. It uses a PCIe 3.0 x16 bus interface and supports DirectX 12.0 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2. The GeForce GTX 980 succeeded the GeForce GTX 780 and was succeeded by the GeForce GTX 1080.