GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce 9800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
16272 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+24477%
82580
GeForce 9800 GT
336
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+9120%
36328
GeForce 9800 GT
394
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
14
16384
Shading Units
112
512
TMUs
56
176
ROPs
16
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
72 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
450W
TDP
125W
850 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
G92B
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-280-B1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
55 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
260 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
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
