NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1808 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +1823%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 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

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

14

1920

Shading Units

112

120

TMUs

56

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

33.60 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G92B

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

G92-280-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

260 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

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