NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +1382%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GM204

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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