GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+920%
3920
GeForce 9800 GX2
384
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
1664
Shading Units
128
104
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
197W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x HDMI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G92
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
