NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 16 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1836 MHz
  • 10173.7x more texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 47.2 billion / sec
  • 46x more pipelines: 5888 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 55 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1100 MHz
  • 14x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1166 vs 83
  • 54.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26959 vs 494
  • 7.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 417.133 vs 54.055
  • 11.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 55.476 vs 4.986
  • 15.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 245.639 vs 15.56
  • 22.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 2459.317 vs 108.412
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 16 January 2009
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1836 MHz
Texture fill rate 480.2 GTexel/s vs 47.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 5888 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1166 vs 83
PassMark - G3D Mark 26959 vs 494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 417.133 vs 54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.476 vs 4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 245.639 vs 15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2459.317 vs 108.412

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 141 Watt vs 285 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 141 Watt vs 285 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1166
83
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
26959
494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
417.133
54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
55.476
4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
245.639
15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459.317
108.412
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
PassMark - G2D Mark 1166 83
PassMark - G3D Mark 26959 494
Geekbench - OpenCL 168049
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 417.133 54.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.476 4.986
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 245.639 15.56
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2459.317 108.412
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3309

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Tesla
Code name AD104 G92B
Launch date 2023 16 January 2009
Place in performance rating 35 1305
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2610 MHz
Core clock speed 2310 MHz 1836 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5888 128
Pixel fill rate 167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 480.2 GTexel/s 47.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 285 Watt 141 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Floating-point performance 470.0 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 336 mm, 13.2 inches 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 2x 6-pin
Width 140 mm, 5.5 inches
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 10.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 504.2 GB/s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI