GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 980 Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GX2
384
GeForce GTX 980
+1197%
4981
Graphics Card
Mar 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
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
128
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
38.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
384.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
197W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x HDMI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GM204
G92-450-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
324 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
