NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+1583%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
16
1920
Shading Units
128
120
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
197W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
G92
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
65 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
