GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce 7800 GTX 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Nov 2005
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 7 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
108W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
G70
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
333 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
