GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    530%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 430% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameG92 (G92-420-A2)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders128vs768
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock675 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTXGeForce GTX 950
TDP140 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date28 Mar 2008vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    1600
  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490

Points (higher is better)