GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 148W)
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1552 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
GeForce GTX 970
+1066%
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 9800 GT
394
GeForce GTX 970
+825%
3646
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
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 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
1664
56
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
56
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
148W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
GM204-200-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
