GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
+27%
336
GeForce 8800 GS
264
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
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
384MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
12
112
Shading Units
96
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
12
64 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
G92
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
