NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +1039%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G92

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

197W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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