GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs GeForce GTX 780

GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jan 2009
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    855%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX+

109 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 755% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 780

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

The GeForce GTX 780 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTX+GeForce GTX 780
GPU NameG92B (G92-420-B1)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders128vs2304
Compute Units8vs12
Core clock738 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs64vs192

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9800 GTX+GeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9800 GTX+GeForce GTX 780
TDP141 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date16 Jan 2009vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    11.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    47.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    70.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    470.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    1610
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)