NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490 +148%

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

128

60

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G92B

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

141W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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