NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

21632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +28467%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

16

21760

Shading Units

128

680

TMUs

64

192

ROPs

16

680

Tensor Cores

-

170

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

88 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

197W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

G92

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

65 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.754 billion

Unknown

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

10.1

CUDA

1.1

6.8

Shader Model

4.0

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