GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce 9800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT 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 2 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1936 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9800 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 165W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980
+1382%
4981
GeForce 9800 GT
336
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 980
+1007%
4362
GeForce 9800 GT
394
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1216 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
14
2048
Shading Units
112
128
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
77.82 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
4.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
165W
TDP
125W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G92B
GM204-400-A1
GPU Variant
G92-280-B1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
260 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
