NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (171W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +39%

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

27

128

Shading Units

216

64

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GT200B

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

324 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

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