NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +528%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1024

64

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

37.70 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

197W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GM206

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

324 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

6.4

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