GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
912 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
336
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+632%
2460
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Nov 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1024
56
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
GM206
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
