GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 182W)
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 's Advantages
More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
+41%
477
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
24
112
Shading Units
192
56
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
28
64 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
182W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
GT200B
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
G200-103-B3
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
